Riding Shotgun (eBook)

The Role of the COO, Updated Edition

Nate Bennett, Stephen Miles (Autoren)

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2017 | 2. Auflage
248 Seiten
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0100-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Drawing heavily on first-person accounts from top brass in major corporations, Riding Shotgun provides readers with a thorough introduction to the little understood, yet critical role of the Chief Operating Officer. Updated with even more interviews and shifts over the last decade in view, this book is an invaluable resource for boards, top management teams, and aspiring COOs.

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The role of Chief Operating Officer is clearly important. In fact, it's arguable that the number two position is the toughest job in a company. COOs play a critical part in executing the strategies developed by top management. And, in many cases, they are being groomed-or test-driven-as the firm's CEO-elect. Riding Shotgun provides unique insight into this little-understood role. The authors develop a framework that illustrates who the COO is, why a company should create this position, and what the challenges associated with this job entail. Drawing heavily on first-person accounts from top executives, the authors offer a set of strategies to inform individuals who aspire to serve as COO. With a new preface and conclusion, and even more interviews from some of the most established and important companies in today's economy, this book is a one-of-a-kind resource for the C-suite and the boardroom.

Autor

Nathan Bennett is Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and Professor in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Stephen Miles is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Miles Group. Previously, he was a Vice Chairman at Heidrick & Struggles. Stephen specializes in CEO succession and has partnered with numerous boards of Fortune 500 companies to ensure successful leadership searches and transitions. Together, they are the authors of Your Career Game: How Game Theory Can Help You Achieve Your Professional Goals (Stanford, 2010).

Inhalt

Contents and Abstracts1Introduction: The Role of the Chief Operating Officer chapter abstractThis chapter provides an overview for the book and the case made therein that the COO role can add tremendous value when created for the right reason, provided the right support, and staffed by the right person.2How Firms Use Their COOs chapter abstractThis chapter lays out the fundamentals in terms of describing the role of the COO. Several companies that have deployed the role in various ways are highlighted. Interviews include executives from Motorola, Autodesk, Coca Cola, Kohlberg Kravis, and IBM.3The Number Two Job chapter abstractThis chapter describes in detail the duties commonly associated with the COO job, as well as the unique characteristics of the job that are based upon the leadership style of the CEO and the strategic objectives held for the position and for the company. Interviews include executives from AirTran, American Standard, PepsiCo, Amgen, and Raytheon.4The Search for a COO chapter abstractThis chapter offers advice to organizations looking to staff a COO position, as well as to those interested in holding such a role. Interviews include executives from PepsiCo, Apple, Starbucks, Adobe Systems, and NCR5Attracting and Managing a COO chapter abstractThis chapter outlines the keys to making the COO a success. Interviews include executives at Heidrick and Struggles, Yahoo!, The Hatchery, Dell Computer, eBay, and Corning.6Contemporary Shifts in the COO Role chapter abstractThis chapter outlines the ways that a number of exogenous factors have helped shape the evolution of the COO role over the past decade: global recession, terrorism and natural disasters, big data, mobile computing, and the millennial generation entering the workforce. Interviews include executives with Cisco Systems, Regus, Xerox, and Delta Air Lines.7Conclusion: Parting Words, Key Considerations chapter abstractThis chapter summarizes the findings about the role of COO; particularly important is the COO typology that emerged from our research. COOs have one or more of seven roles to play relative to the preferences of the CEO and the needs of the organization.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: Chief Operating Officers • Coo • Leadership • Number Two • Succession Planning • Top Management Teams
• ISBN-10: 1-5036-0100-5 / 1503601005
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-0100-0 / 9781503601000