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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team

Chart Your Course

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. Your CFO should be Captain America with the emotional range of a rock.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. 7 motivational patterns of high performance leadership.

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The Case for Lending Out Your Star Performers

Harvard Business Review

He spent two years as the CFO of power and automation company ABB, from 2002 to 2004, before returning to Shell as CFO. The main driver for me was to be CFO of a quoted company. Should your leadership development systems at least consider cross-boundary experience as an option? I wanted that experience.

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AIG's Hank Greenberg Won't Let Go

Harvard Business Review

Asked about retirement in 2002, he replied , "I had a great-grandmother who worked until she was 108 and then died in an accident.". Anything they spot is reported directly, in writing, to Greenberg and a few other executives, including CFO Howard Smith.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. In addition to leadership development programs being used to help leaders “go digital,” these programs need to reflect the new realities of the digital and democratized workplace. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.