Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

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. Are you kidding me? TWENTY years??? Happy leading!

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CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

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. In 2010 and 2011 they joined the ranks of the Top 20 Leadership Training Companies.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 12, 2010

Posted on March 12, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment There are lots of ways you can unwittingly derail your career. Life is good for Ricardo up and down the organizational hierarchy. The CFO, who is the named successor for the Prez, is Ricardo’s #1 detractor. Skip to content Home Welcome!

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Career CFO Blog Godin 34

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In the early weeks we learn that our product won’t stand up to the sanitation requirements of the industry and we’re presented with real engineering problems in design and materials, but these are problems we know how to solve. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. IMPOSSIBLE!

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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. ” Backing this up is another group of asset managers who have committed $2 billion to invest in a newly created S&P Long-Term Value Index , a subset of companies doing things right. ” Many did.

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Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. Many major companies, such as Southwest Airlines, UPS, Chick-fil-A, Best Buy, Yum! Recently I ordered some shoes from Zappos that ended up not fitting. Never, ever shortchange your customers.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. Viewed this way, there is a bottom-up solution to the problem of America’s uninsured. America spends $3.3 Yet nearly 30 million Americans, or 10% of the population, are uninsured. Insight Center.

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Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The CEO and CFO were marching through their 112-slide presentation. Early on in our careers, we might speak up without concern or context. Or perhaps we have wondered, as others have , if it's worth the cost of speaking up. Perhaps the question is less "should I speak up?" than "when should I speak up?"

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Merton Groupthink CFO Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

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. At Allianz, the program was initiated and supported by the company CFO. Scaling Social Impact Insights from HBR and The Bridgespan Group.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

In the decades since Deng Xiaoping instituted market reform, millions of women have profitably followed Deng's dictate that "to get rich is glorious." Half of the 14 billionaires on Forbes magazine's 2010 list of the world's richest self-made women are from mainland China. This post was co-authored with Ripa Rashid.

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 14

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. He didn't say shove them in the back seat and ask them to sit down and shut up and let us drive. Or: S = (PT) C.

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