N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

You know the issue of sequestered executives is a real problem when it’s main-stream enough to be made into a prime-time Reality TV show. 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.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

The CFO owns a couple. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. An enterprise business model was developed that takes in all the processes across all the business areas. Thanks for sharing this one.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

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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. Gee Mr. Clark, couldn’t you do a little better than that??

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The job of the senior executive is much more complicated today than it was a decade or two ago — and that trend will continue, especially if you hope to play on a global stage (which is a nearly universal condition these days for many companies). you have to be the best CFO in the world. Here are five reasons.

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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. This is the tie that binds us and we live it every day.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®. The result?

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 12, 2010

The CFO, who is the named successor for the Prez, is Ricardo’s #1 detractor. Leave a Reply Cancel reply RSS - Posts Subscribe to our Blog Brought to you by: Online MBA Rankings Join our Fan Page The Executive Roundtable Inc. Seymour Schulich delivers the goods on decision-making → Like Be the first to like this post.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The executives of Fortune 500 companies might be able to lose the same bet with impunity, and the founders of venture capital-funded startups are only renting the farm (with the VC’s money) anyway. But for a midsize company, an ambitious investment that you don’t have the wherewithal to execute on can be fatal. Forecasting acumen.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

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. It doesn't matter if you are an administrative assistant or a CFO; all employees need this common experience. Not just managers?"

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Hess is author of Growing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts & Cases and is a professor of business administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. He is the author of nine books, over 60 cases, and over 60 articles. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. However, Nokia held on to Symbian until 2011, when it eventually switched to Windows operating system, which also underperformed. ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO/Stringer. Getty Images.

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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. Plus, it can generate a long-term income from that investment if executed well. ​ ​1.

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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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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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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?". First off, if the company doesn''t have a CSO and the chief executive thinks the "S" has something to do with sustainability, just fire him. A question that could tell you a lot about the company''s potential under this leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

He told me about the days, decades ago, when he first ran into a new breed of executive and thought, “What the heck is a CIO?” In 2011, floods in Thailand stranded hard drive and automakers for months without key parts. Think of appointing a Chief Circular Economy Officer, a VP of Dematerialization, or Director of Water.

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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. Sometimes it is hard for executives to accept that their growth strategy is fundamentally one of pie splitting.

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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. Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. From a strategic standpoint, they became invisible; they no longer mattered.".

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

Financial executives, with their usual attention to detail and concern about forward-looking statements, often prepare their presentations as complete text on paper or on slides, and then they read or try to memorize the words. One CFO showed up for his coaching session at my company with his presentation written out in full sentences.

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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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