Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The rapid pace of technological advancement and evolving business models are transforming the job market at an unprecedented rate. I have identified ten job titles within the realms of leadership and business operations. Chief Operating Officer: Organizations are becoming flatter, more agile, and technologically advanced.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

The C-Suite Executives Role in Business Strategy The C-Suite executive team comprises the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), and other high-ranking ‘chief’ executives.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

His relentless pursuit of innovation and ability to foresee technological advancements redefined the tech industry and set new standards for product design and functionality. Their strengths include: Organizational Skills: Designing efficient workflows and operational frameworks. exemplifies the Creator style.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Underinvestment in Technology. Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Failing technology. Company COO, Andrew Watterson, explained their scheduling software could not match available crews with planes quickly enough. Invest in Technology.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The new CEO at Chipotle formerly held the position of the Chief Operating Officer before being asked to act as the interim leader. According to Chipotle, he greatly contributed to the strategy and growth of the business and also led the shift in integrating new technology into the restaurants. Now, the position has been made permanent.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Vrio Corp has been committed to following market trends and increasing its value proposition through transformation: investing in technology and content aligned with the consumers’ habits, emphasizing the next generation. Step 4: Operations alignment. originally an American direct broadcast satellite service provider from California.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Underinvestment in Technology This was the main root of their problem. Because Southwest Airlines seems to have the worst, most outdated operating technology in the industry. Failing technology. Company COO, Andrew Watterson, explained their scheduling software could not match available crews with planes quickly enough.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2022

Janet Dell is President and COO of Freeman, where she leads all Freeman business operations across the globe. Prior to leading Marsh Clearsight, Janet served as Marsh’s COO of Global Sales, where she was responsible for driving organic growth. ” How can you apply a beginner’s mindset to your business?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

His wide-ranging experience—as a Navy SEAL, a White House Fellow, Chief of Staff and COO at Bridgewater Associates, and Head of Strategic Operations at Cognizant Technologies, among other roles—made his insights even richer. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. They run business units and geographic regions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your company have a COO today? Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

With such a diverse clientele, employees cannot simply operate by choosing from a limited number of preselected solutions to guest requests. Kurtzman believes that “organizations will come to resemble constellations of capabilities linked together technologically from centers located around the world….Big

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Coordinating the infrastructure, technology, and messaging in a way that appears seamless and fluid to the customer is, to be blunt, a logistical nightmare. The CMO and COO are the natural partners for turning this around. If it’s all about the operations then you lose sight of the customer. But getting it right pays off.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Vincent Chee: I am working with our COO Roni Gross and Director Naomi Hung to determine Bevel’s timeline within 6-months, 1 year and 2 years. Vincent Chee: There is a niche intersection between cutting-edge technology/finance and strategic communications.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

CEOs/COOs are looking at the wrong data…they look for trends while or after they happen, not searching for clues before they happen. The focus of these short-sighted bean counters incorrectly place cost savings ahead of the customer experience.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. Other managers might take notice and started building their own databases.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

That’s why, after years of operating without support staff (it’s been just me and my COO), I’ve recently hired a 24-year-old, Morgan, and given him the title of Director of Execution and Evolution. Stop playing catch-up with technology. I told him his job is to help me grow my business and my mind.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. Digital technology, one of the world's fastest-growing and most lucrative sectors, is popular with consumers of all ages. For instance, would a woman with spiky orange hair land a COO job? I should know. Consider the industry. She was bracingly blunt.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Despite having a full plate of client projects, she signed up to work on a massive survey to understand the concerns of chief operating officers. I never realized that we have behavioral economists on staff who can apply psychological and cognitive research to help clients with technology implementation projects.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Marne Levine is the COO of Instagram (Facebook, Inc.). When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. My husband was one of the earliest investors in alternative energy technologies in the U.S., Future Economy. Mission-Driven Sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Wilson went on to be COO of The Gap Inc. But Anderson, who had served as an independent director on the company’s board for several years, did this through having “tremendous relationships and credibility with the operating executives.” and is currently president of Staples Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Since then, using the Net and social networking technologies such as Twitter and Facebook, people in their 20s and 30s have been collecting and disseminating valuable data; collaborating with others they have never met; and creating rescue projects on the fly as well as garnering resources for them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Watch Your Mouth Sheryl Sandberg and Anna Maria Chávez on 'Bossy,' the Other B-word The Wall Street Journal Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and her Lean In organization want to ban the word "bossy" when it''s used to describe assertive girls and women. Crisis management Information & technology Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Perhaps Thorsten Heins has longed to run a big, public company. But probably the dream didn't look like this.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The keynote speaker was Sheryl Sandberg, famous both for her role as Facebook COO and for her advice to girls and women to “ Lean In.”. If you can “connect people and cascade excellence,” better ways of operating have the best chance of taking hold. What does this have to do with scaling?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

It was, in part, the rise of the technology industry that gave charm a new urgency, because tech companies needed managers on the inside who were "technical and charismatic." Even more telling, Enderle argues, is that the executive presenting Microsoft’s data analytics offerings was COO Kevin Turner – not an engineer, but an end user.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Consider Nissan’s “Vision Zero” which aims for “zero traffic accidents involving Nissan vehicles that inflict serious or fatal injuries,” according to COO Toshiyuki Shiga. Even tactical operational goals can be transformative. But it’s also very good for the business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs, only to watch the company’s initial CEO return to the day-to-day operations alongside yet another chief executive, who joined well after the founding. Sure enough, the company’s growth soon warranted yet another shift, and the board put COO Dick Costolo in the CEO role.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

Lafley has been out of P&G for 4 years, which in this age of rapid change can include several waves of volatile external change — economic, geopolitcal, technological (social media) etc. But it''s also important to note that A.G.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

And after several fruitless meetings with the COO, the HR chief, and industry consultants, he’d decided that he needed to investigate the issue himself. Mayuka Mori, the COO, jumped in. ” Yoshiyuki Taniguchi, the CTO, spoke up: “I like your thinking, Mayuka-san, but why not use technology to achieve the same result?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale. The CHRO can be working on networking employees and locations; the CMO on networking customers and partners; the CFO on networking funding and payments; the CIO on software and data; and the COO on products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, speaking at City Colleges of Chicago. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. What follows is a short recap of some of the best bits from this year’s commencements, as related to business and career success.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We’ll teach you our technology. A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. Can you get them to create excellence in your organization? If you got that skill – and there’s a lot of organizations willing to pay really big bucks for people who know how to do that.

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