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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

For example, A successful CFO is likely to have such MAPs (Motivation and Attitudinal patterns) as — strong motivation toward procedures over options; a preference for solving problems over focus on goals; and a high past time orientation that drives focus on traditions, past experience and benchmarks. Future Orientation.

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The Case for Lending Out Your Star Performers

Harvard Business Review

Like the Premier League in soccer, Khazanah plays the role of investor and broker, creating a structure that allows the borrowing and lending companies to mitigate the risk and costs of managing the loans themselves. He spent two years as the CFO of power and automation company ABB, from 2002 to 2004, before returning to Shell as CFO.

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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. But Greenberg just isn't going to let go. He apparently doesn't know how.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

How talent management is changing. Then practice and apply new behavior back on the job while instituting routines for manager, peer and coach feedback. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.