Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 15, 2011

For example, you don't want the CEO and CFO coming to you and saying, "You never justify why we're spending so much money, so we're cutting your budget." To participate in the 2011 Thinkers 50, visit [link]. Align yourself with the rest of your executive team.

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Advice Execution Marketing Prahalad 107

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 295

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

The CFO owns a couple. An enterprise business model was developed that takes in all the processes across all the business areas. Processes are categorized by a Business Cycle (end to end business process) which are “owned&# by a majority of non-financial senior leaders.

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Greenleaf Maslow Goal Goleman 200

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

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. If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

And, I had to wonder, how motivating did Colleen Johnston, CFO, TD Bank Financial Group find that comment? Share this: This entry was posted in Leadership , Authenticity and tagged Ed Clark CEO TD Bank , Colleen Johnston CFO TD Bank Financial , walking the talk , lack of authenticity , womens advancement. Happy leading!

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CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

On October 4, 2011, Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It, will be published by Crown Business. Written by Adrian Slywotzky with Karl Weber. In my opinion, it is one of the most valuable and will, over time, become one of the most I influential business books ever written. It takes [.].

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Slywotzky Books CFO Banking 80

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The development process continues and we introduce the “Amalgatome” in the middle of 2011 to a narrow market of fifteen primary processors with an annual sales potential of $2.76 Million; not big, but interesting. Undeterred, we issue our Letter of Intent to the State; one of hundreds.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2012

As I’ve gotten to know Joe Folkman and others at Zenger Folkman over the past few months, I’ve been very impressed by the high quality and high values team he, Jack, and Bob Sherwin (he was CFO at Zenger Miller) have put together. In 2010 and 2011 they joined the ranks of the Top 20 Leadership Training Companies.

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White Paper Drucker Leadership Development CFO 56

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Sharon Drew explores what happens when he stumbles in the dark trying to bring his fellow managers, the internal tech team (which is responsible for the current site), and the CFO (to whom the tech team reports) on board. But I’m getting ahead of myself. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®. The result?

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Then the family's CFO, my wife, who also happens to be a CPA, demanded to know their TCO. The CFO's skepticism was proved correct, and I lost all credibility. The machines were given to a friend, who sold them at a garage sale (I couldn't throw them away, because the CFO wouldn't authorize the $50 per machine "green" disposal fee.).

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Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. So, for instance, if you want a top finance job it's not enough to be the best CFO in the U.S.; you have to be the best CFO in the world. And for many people they're harder to learn.

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Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 12, 2010

The CFO, who is the named successor for the Prez, is Ricardo’s #1 detractor. And so here’s my cautionary point of this post… when Ricardo’s supportive boss swans off into retirement, who’s gonna have dear Ricardo’s back?

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Career CFO Blog Godin 34

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

Sharon Drew explores what happens when he stumbles in the dark trying to bring his fellow managers, the internal tech team (which is responsible for the current site), and the CFO (to whom the tech team reports) on board. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®.

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Case Study Technology Resistance Project 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

And as a former CFO I also understand the preoccupation with numbers, but during my time as a CEO it has become clearer to me than ever, that numbers don't tell the whole story. It doesn't matter if you are an administrative assistant or a CFO; all employees need this common experience. As a CEO leading a global U.S.-based

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CFO Software Engineering CEO 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

BlueArc’s CFO, Rick Martig, and other executives gathered market data to support the investment in the mid-tier data storage product. Martig was a seasoned CFO with years of forecasting experience in technology firms. By 2011, the company revenues were $86 million, and it filed for its own public stock offering.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Recruit a digital leader from outside to spearhead the initiative. ” When she sensed that the experts were not listening to each other, she intervened. Cut layers.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

In 2011, I talked with Doyle Hopper, general manager of Nucor''s Vulcraft Group and Nucor Cold Finish. The CFO said the net effect "is like having 700 internal auditors out there in every function of the company.". Murnighan writes, "This is what great leaders do. They don''t work; they facilitate and orchestrate.".

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Skills Leadership CFO Technology 8

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." In 2011, he was signed to Ellen DeGeneres' label, eleveneleven. ​ ​1. Gifted with the rare trait known as " perfect pitch ," Charlie Puth was born and raised in the music world.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

I listened in this morning as Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer explained what they're planning to do with Apple's $98 billion in cash (pay a $2.65 GDP and corporate taxes 6%; in the third quarter of 2011, profits were up to 13.1% quarterly dividend and buy back a lot of shares). of GDP and corporate taxes down to 2.7%.

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GDP How To Offshoring Incentives 13

Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. Focusing on Employee Engagement: How to Measure it and Improve It UNC: Kenan-Flaglar Business School, 2011. Employee Engagement-A Leading Indicator of Financial Performance Forbes, December 2011. Canadian HR Reporter, March 2011. NEWS, January 2012.

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Article CFO Magazine Library 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

However, Nokia held on to Symbian until 2011, when it eventually switched to Windows operating system, which also underperformed. As one of the top managers reflected on the period from 2007 to 2011: “A lot of the board members felt that they weren’t always encouraged to speak freely [at that time].”

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Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Three and a half months after announcing a price increase in July 2011, Netflix had lost 800,000 customers and its stock nosedived from $291 to $75. When I spoke with a CFO about this recently, he said: "Rafi, the key is to not let a price hike become emotional to customers, because that's when they become irrational and ultimately leave.".

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Price Retail Press Release Banking 13

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

His work has appeared in over 200 media outlets around the world including CNBC, Fox Business News, Dow Jones Radio, WSJ Radio, MSNBC Radio, NPR, Forbes, Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, CFO magazine, Financial Executive, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Big Think, the Washington Post, and Financial Times. Consider leaving a comment!

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

Penney in November 2011 with a mandate to turn the ailing retailer around, all eyes were on him. Costco's CFO, Richard Galanti stated, "People are eating in more and looking for fresh food, which, along with [our] low gas prices, is what are driving people into our stores more often. When Ron Johnson took over the helm at J.

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Retail Price Merchandising CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

How about this, the boardroom version of Sophie''s Choice: "Who would you rather fire, the CFO or the CSO?". When Sony ''s customer database of 77 million customers was exposed in 2011, the immediate repair cost was estimated at 14 Billion Yen ($171 million), and the brand tarnish lingers.

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CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. million records).

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer. Internal Candidates Are Regularly Tapped to Fill Open Roles.

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Career Company Software Handbook 247

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

My colleague, Linda Deeken, and I did some analysis of the top 75 Food & Beverage categories sold in classic retail channels that Nielsen measures for a 4 year period from 2007-2011. Ask your CFO if greater than 50% of their profit objective is a combination of population growth, raising prices (without real innovation), or cost cutting.

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Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.”

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

He explains, “It becomes increasingly important to have those strategic conversations with your CFO, investor relations teams, government affairs teams, strategy and corporate development teams and all key stakeholders…” It’s particularly important to seek out perspectives from people with informal or emerging power.

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. Comstock is out.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings. Assign tasks and ask if there are questions. Wrap up the meeting with a summary of accomplishments and next steps action items.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In Sarah’s opinion, the problem was obvious: Sid Yerby, the CFO. The young and inexperienced CEO confessed that he often felt uncomfortable asking tough questions of the CFO, an industry veteran who was 10 years his senior. had pulled her aside and asked her to stop arguing with the CFO. had grown distant. Some months back, J.P.

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Case Study Real Estate CFO Letter 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

One CFO showed up for his coaching session at my company with his presentation written out in full sentences. and the author of Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation Lessons from the Masters (FT Press: 2011). Those approaches force the presenter to stay connected to the text and disconnected from the audience.

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Gordon Letter Audience CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

These reports — one from a company task force and a second from a review committee of the board — were overshadowed by two items announced the same day: the related news that the bank board had slashed CEO Jamie Dimon's annual compensation in half — from $23 million in 2011 to $11.5

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