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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Oh dear Mr. Clark… can't you do better than that?

Roundtable Talk

Posted on October 12, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment So, the Globe and Mail is doing a big feature series on why there aren’t more women heading up Canadian corporations and, worse, why other countries are scooping our (apparently meager) female executive talent. Skip to content Home Welcome! And, that’s my rant for today.

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The Personal Strength of Self-Development: Rackspace's Dynamic CEO, Lanham Napier

Building Personal Strength

My wife went straight to the Sunday (May 2, 2010) edition of the San Antonio Express-News , to see if her new article was published in the Travel section. His Harvard classmates, who sought jobs at big consulting firms and investment banks, thought he was crazy. In 2000 he accepted a job as CFO at start-up Rackspace.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

While focused on the specific need for this specific customer, we begin a broader look at the “Tissue Banking” industry and reached out to several other companies and organizations including Community Tissue Services in Dayton and the American Association of Tissue Banks. Million; not big, but interesting.

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The Personal Strength of Loyalty - The Glue of Relationships

Building Personal Strength

He did this of his own initiative, even though it involved some risk to his bank. Forty years later, I googled him and discovered that he’s now the CFO for a big company and a benefactor in his community. Coates, Ph.D., , Copyright 2010. Naturally, we’ve been loyal to him, too. So loyalty is earned, and it’s a two-way street.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

For example, in the credit card business, understanding the importance of deals with issuing banks is critical. While marketing might focus on maximizing card transactions, or swipes, finance understands that not all swipes are equal (depending on the deal with a given bank). Inside Intel.

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VW’s Board Needed More Outsiders

Harvard Business Review

In managing the fallout from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster in 2010, company Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg had to take over from CEO Tony Hayward, whose gaffes and public blaming of partners had only exacerbated the crisis. Take the case of BP. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S.

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