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My Best Blogs of 2011

In the CEO Afterlife

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. Frankly, I wasn’t sure whether I could maintain the pace of one blog per week. But as the year closes, I realize that I’ve posted 54 blogs. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process.

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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

It is essential to have someone with a bird’s-eye view of the whole process to orchestrate it successfully. He highlighted the need for change as the main prerequisite of a successful transformation; being ex-McKinsey and a public official before this current role, Boris’s whole career revolved around extensive transformation processes.

CTO 392
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Elon Musk by Walter Isaascson

Leading Blog

Entrepreneurs are actually not risk takers,” says X.com CFO Roelof Botha. Delete any part or process you can. You are responsible for the production process. I think a huge part of the way he motivates people are these displays of sharpness, which people just don’t expect him, because they mistake him for a b r or goofball.”

CFO 353
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3 Telltale Signs It’s Time to Rethink Your Executive Team

Leading Blog

Replacing these hand-picked team members becomes a highly unpleasant process, one that CEOs avoid at all costs—despite clear signs it’s necessary. As one anonymous Fortune 500 CEO shared: My CFO started well. But once the CEO has been in place for a few years, this dynamic changes. Should the CEO clean house?

Execution 324
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Stop Letting the Latest Trend Dictate How You Run Your Company

Leading Blog

Then prepare to be surprised: Your CEO, CFO, and COO may very well give different answers. COMMUNICATE EXPECTATIONS Putting your talent first starts at the very beginning: the interview process. So, when thinking about your employees and talent strategies, that’s where you must start: at the top.

Trends 350
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Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First

Leading Blog

This is a group that consists of the CEO, the CFO, and the CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer). The relationship between the CFO and CHRO is vital. The success of the G3 is up to the CEO, but the CFO and the CHRO “must be star performers who can learn from each other’s language and dive into each other’s business.”.

CFO 158
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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

Both are high-volume capital intense process industries. . The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology. A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company.

Execution 392