2011 CEO CFO System 
In the CEO Afterlife
SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
In the CEO Afterlife. Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip. by John • September 6, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership • 1 Comment. The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO. Leadership.
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 22, 2010
Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself.
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Roundtable Talk
OCTOBER 12, 2010
All interesting stuff, and easy to jump on a soapbox about, but, the quote that caught my eye came from Ed Clark, President & CEO of TD Bank Financial Group. Am I the only person who finds it odd that a CEO who supposedly is a giant champion of women is predicting it’s going to take TWO DECADES to get a woman to the top post.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2013
This argument was derided by IT supply-side executives such as Steve Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, and Scott McNealy, but CEOs quietly applauded it. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. Because they distance themselves from IT, CEOs don''t grasp its subtleties. They had suspected all along that IT really doesn''t matter.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 4, 2013
Have you ever pondered what you''d ask the CEO if you were made chairman of the board for 10 minutes and could pose one question? Nothing about markets or strategies — CEOs have canned answers for that kind of thing. You''d want a question that would strip away the cloak of invincibility and reveal the CEO''s innermost fears.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 14, 2011
This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. The recent ups and downs of the global financial markets have placed a lot of scrutiny on CEOs, corporate boards and executive teams to deliver stakeholder value that can withstand the fluctuations. As a CEO leading a global U.S.-based
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 18, 2014
CEOs of midsized companies who make big bets can lose the farm. Warehouse automation systems are big and complicated; if they don’t work, you’re worse off than before since it becomes almost impossible to ship product. And when the company did the cutover – right before its customers’ biggest selling season – the system just.
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