Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

With the right ‘business operations’ in place, your company will achieve success: People: In any company or organization, the real assets are the people. When you regard the people as the true assets of the company, and treat them accordingly, they will respond in ways that will surprise and delight you.

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Building Personal Strength

MAY 7, 2010

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. It was about Lanham Napier, CEO of San Antonio company Rackspace, which sells websites and web-based services. It's a fast-growing company with revenues approaching $1 billion.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2012

After so many years of successful partnering with Jack Zenger at his previous company (he headed up Zenger Miller when I was a partner in The Achieve Group), I am quite excited to be working with him and his colleagues again. It’s a big step in our company’s growth and development. And they’ve only just begun.

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White Paper Drucker Leadership Development CFO 56

Building Personal Strength

MARCH 4, 2010

Our company has a great relationship with our banker, one that has endured more than ten years of high-flying and recession free-falling economies. Our landlord, on the other hand, has consistently chosen not to give our company a high priority. infantry company. But what is meant by that, exactly? You need more info.”

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Loyalty Open-book CFO Restructuring 107

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Move from the plant floor to the executive suite and we’re known as a company who has brought several unique and inventive products to the industry that has improved the efficient delivery of protein products to a demanding consumer. Million; not big, but interesting.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

This, in turn, is triggering a shift in the perceived role of the CFO — from bean counters to planters of seed corn. trillion in holdings, Fink in February sent a letter to the CEOs of all S&P 500 companies that essentially cut the Gordian knot of short-termism. Invest more of that capital in growing the company.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Guest post by Dave Yarin: It was April 2010, and a Fortune 500 CEO would utter one of the most ill advised yet memorable lines in corporate history. Before the 2010 disaster, Hayward was described as "unassuming and modest." Auditing/monitoring and risk assessment – risk assessment is the "radar screen" of threats to your company.

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CEO Compliance Organization Report 240

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Ask any career-oriented woman about her top work-related concerns, and she will likely rank having access to high-quality jobs at desirable companies and having equitable opportunities to advance within those organizations at the top of the list. Take a quick scan of the managers and company leaders.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 13, 2017

When I moved to Portland Oregon back in 2010, my intentions were to exist in a state of “semi-retirement” – that is, blending a little bit of work with a lot more down time.

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CPA COO CFO Leadership 192

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

As the business environment becomes increasingly complex and interconnected, few leaders express confidence in their companies' ability to adapt. A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Companies that separate the roles of CEO and chairman and appoint strong outsiders to the latter position may have one advantage: they are more likely to benefit from strong governance. and other national regulators to extract even more by way of fines and other penalties from the company. Take the case of BP.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Ideas Plus Influence by Starbucker on December 2, 2010 (This is Part 1 in a two-part blog series which I’ve worked on with a colleague, Denise Lee Yohn. It could be your best decision in a while!

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

At many companies we work with, analytics becomes the connective tissue between the different visions of what drives results emerging from marketing and finance. Consider Intel, which began eyeing Big Data’s potential to quantify marketing’s contribution to revenue in about 2010. Inside Intel. The New Marketing Organization.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

At many companies the total cash investment in acquisitions, R&D, and fixed assets has not earned back its cost of capital after adjusting for the time lag in realizing incremental benefits. As Keith Sherin, then GE’s CFO put it, “This is where the growth is. That outcome reflects the wrong allocation and/or ineffective execution.

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P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Many major companies, such as Southwest Airlines, UPS, Chick-fil-A, Best Buy, Yum! The Good: Zappos.com Companies that know great customer service do exist, and Zappos.com is one of them. She cared enough to provide me with high-level service, which makes me think that she also cares about the company where she works.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

I Give This Blurb 3 Stars Operation Clean Turf and the War on Fake Yelp Reviews Businessweek Were the 19 companies accused of commissioning fake online reviews the only firms out there engaged in this nefarious practice? But you have to take Yelp’s word for it that its filter is effective, because the company won’t say how the filter works.

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Review CFO PR Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Research conducted by the Center for Work-Life Policy in 2010 confirms that women start out wanting the brass ring almost as badly as men do: 47% of women 30 and younger describe themselves as "very ambitious," as compared to 62% of men. With leading companies playing a strong supporting role, more women can become stars.

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CFO Film Banking Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. The winners.

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. Gallup’s Workplace Jedi on How to Fix Our Employee Engagement Problem Fast Company, June, 2013. Your Company Needs a Purpose ERE.net, November 2012. Keep On Engaging Incentive Magazine, December 2010. Capitalizing on Complexity IBM, 2010.

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Article CFO Magazine Library 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. Even if it has nothing more up its sleeve than beautiful new iterations of its existing products, the fact remains that this is a company that last quarter had profits of more than $8 billion.

Marketing 11

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In my last post , I argued that companies can't keep their costs in line by attacking them directly. Instead, companies must make fundamental changes to the way they work — how they market and sell, handle orders, bill for those orders, manufacture and distribute their goods, and serve customers after the sale.

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Budgeting Chief Financial Officer Cost CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In a 2010 review of its purchasing strategy, Ascension concluded that it didn’t really have an effective purchasing strategy at all. As Rhonda Anderson, the CFO of the nonprofit, told us: “Our mission goes back hundreds of years: providing care for the poor and the vulnerable. It’s part of Catholic social teaching.”

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Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Half of the 14 billionaires on Forbes magazine's 2010 list of the world's richest self-made women are from mainland China. Multinational organizations expanding their presence in China and Chinese companies extending their reach into the global marketplace have a unique opportunity to help China's career women keep their ambitions on course.

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

A rules and compliance-based approach may work well for managing preventable risks, but is inadequate for strategy and external risks as companies that failed during the financial crisis illustrated all too well. Each requires customized risk management processes. The compliance-oriented risk manager of a failed U.K.

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Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The CEO and CFO were marching through their 112-slide presentation. Her book, The New How , discussing collaborative ways to have your whole company strategize, was published in 2010. It was said of Abbot Agatho that for three years he carried a stone in his mouth until he learned to be silent. But it's a skill worth pursuing.

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Merton Groupthink CFO Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Maybe, as a start, we ought to describe peopley stuff in more economic language, by putting it in some context that will help our CFO and engineering friends better understand how things relate to one another. Google acts like a modern company in that way. In most companies, only 5% of people know the strategy. Or: S = (PT) C.

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Succession CFO Collins Bottom-up 15