N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 19, 2017

If you go to the bank, your are more than likely to run into the CEO, the General Manager, the Chief Risk Officer, the Chief Human Resources Officer, the European CEO, the Country Director, the Vice President, the Senior Vice President, and the Executive Vice President. There was a cashier, banker and an office director.

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Banking COO CEO Benchmarking 150

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 27, 2021

COO Eric Spencer agrees. An elaborate, annual holiday party features skits from new attorneys and appearances by the firm’s managing partner, who has appeared as many characters including a Vegas showgirl, Dolly Parton, and an Oompa Loompa. I don’t get up in the morning to work for myself, I work for us, our families, each other.”

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Committee CPA COO Morale 105

Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2011

I consulted and led a 6 month coaching and training process with the Executive Vice President of Human Resources and 14 of the Associate Vice Presidents. Working primarily with management within these organizations, my role has been honed to coach, counsel, facilitate and conduct focus group work.

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Team Building TRIZ Succession Team 94

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year.

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Press Release Discount PR Directory 113

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. 2 43,900 26,300 471 Ken Blanchard Leadership Speaker, Leadership/Business Guru, and Author of over 50 books, including The One Minute Manager. I write, teach and consult across the world on human resource strategy.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Consultative 100

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative. Visibility to all parts of the business: Because not all employees could go on ride alongs, new employees learned about the business in new hire orientation.

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CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Children’s Hospital & Clinics COO Julie Morath sets out to change the culture there by instituting a policy of blameless reporting, which encourages employees to report anything that goes wrong or seems substandard without fear of reprisal for the act of reporting.

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COO Edmondson Report Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

The Families and Work Institute’s 2014 National Study of Employers finds that, compared to six years ago when it conducted the same survey, several numbers have moved in the right direction: Employers have continued to increase their provision of options that allow at least some employees to better manage the times and places in which they work.

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Organization Human Resources Banking Flextime 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The article, written by a leading group of service management thinkers (Jim Heskett, Tom Jones, Gary Loveman, Earl Sasser, and Len Schlesinger) is a great example of both the power a management idea can have, and how much work is required for an idea to become reality.

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Retail Heskett Franchising COO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

For example, Cesar Bocanegra started as VP for operations, then asked to take on human resources as well. He was promoted to COO within two years. Senior management encouraged the employee’s creativity and coached her on how to implement her idea. Best has also created a culture of mentorship.

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Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

But his insight makes a lot of sense — and it applies to human talent as well. The best employees and executives are what talent management experts call “portable”. Or would you be better off following a more counterintuitive strategy and finding the true stars who have managed to thrive at weaker firms?

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How To Banking Human Resources COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2016

Begin by saying something like, “We are seriously considering Mary to be a project manager here. For instance, “Nancy doesn’t have a lot of experience managing people”—how do you think she’ll do as a supervisor? She will have to deal with tough deadlines and tight budgets,” he says.

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Reference COO Learning-by-Doing Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Having executed a successful turnaround as COO of her construction company, Joss had been especially helpful to Noelle during her time at Franklin. “Cameron is kidding himself if he thinks he can rely on a few good people who somehow—miraculously—manage to stay engaged through another round of cuts.”

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Case Study CFO Bottom-up Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

Yet few organizations offer clear guidelines on the nuts-and-bolts of managing leave. Allison Falender is a technology manager at Shell, who is currently planning a maternity leave for the birth of her third son in September. Case study #1: Continue to help others grow professionally.

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How To Guidelines Case Study Planning 10

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To stitch it all together meaningfully, CMOs are increasingly expected to act as general managers with P&L or shared/shadow P&L responsibility that drive revenue growth. That helped account managers focus their pitch on the client’s business issues and build rapport. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg recently wrote about her company’s introduction of a course for its employees aimed at combatting unconscious biases. As a result, inspectors were more likely to fraudulently assist the customers driving cheaper cars, passing them even if they didn’t abide by emissions guidelines.

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Training Participative COO Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

And many CEOs we talked to, like Owen Mahoney of Nexon, agree that the CHRO is one of the most strategic roles someone could have: “Businesses grow or die based on the quality of their people, so the human resource executive role is arguably the most strategic in the company.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 14