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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.

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Five Questions Companies Should Ask Before Making an Innovation-Driven Acquisition

Harvard Business Review

This means they're buying drugs that could be similar to others already on or coming soon to the market. No company should confuse the strategy of buying into a big market with buying innovation that will bring tomorrow's growth. HP acquired Compaq in 2002 to give it synergy and mass to compete with Dell in PCs.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. market partners to GE) can take advantage of the unique GE learning experience. Voser was impatient for a new experience which attracted him to ABB and there he learned a whole new level of turnaround leadership.