Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

They were taking four to five weeks of vacation during the course of the year. Recently, in a conversation with the CFO of a blue chip company, I observed an example of the impact of this increased compensation. The CFO replied, "You are getting paid as much a partner in one of the top professional services firms.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

” Then the CHRO paused for a moment and added, “Of course there is this issue of his executive presence. “Executive presence” was mentioned in several reviews as an improvement area, but without any specifics, Tom had no idea what the real issue was and how damaging it could be to his career. .

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

If taking the high road fails, or is not the best course of action, then relax…you’re the CEO – you can always let them go, which is probably what you should have done long ago. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] flowchainsensei Rather too US a view to be more widely relevant.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

An org chart of this nature can’t and shouldn’t be shared with all audiences, of course. Notice in the example I’ve provided below (which is organized by function) how the CEO has the COO promotion ready, and the COO has two possible candidates (both the CFO and the VP of Operations) and has chosen the VP of Operations.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

An org chart of this nature can’t and shouldn’t be shared with all audiences, of course. Notice in the example I’ve provided below (which is organized by function) how the CEO has the COO promotion ready, and the COO has two possible candidates (both the CFO and the VP of Operations) and has chosen the VP of Operations.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

These CEOs see management opinions as inconsequential, unless of course, they happen to be in alignment with their own beliefs and opinions. 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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Managers often think about their careers in terms of winning and losing. But what about those whose careers are sidetracked or derailed when passed over for a key assignment or big promotion? Are these “losers” out of the running for career advancement, or can they regain their footing, refocus their sights, and continue to rise?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

After studying Hollywood actors for three years, MIT Professor Ezra Zuckerman found that actors who typecast themselves (PDF) early in their careers tend to earn more money, have longer lifespans, and enjoy more fame compared to generalist actors. Over the long term, that is a career strategy with diminishing returns.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

Actually, reading the book reminded me of this old anecdote that I heard one time, a conversation between a sort of unnamed CEO and an unnamed CFO and essentially, the CFO was asking, “What happens if we invest all this money to develop our people and they leave?” That can be, I think, really demotivating.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

The career question I hear most often from rising senior leaders is this: “How do I get on the C-suite shortlist?” With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. Formal C-suite advocates and senior sponsors are crucial, of course. Broad Support.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Ask any career-oriented woman about her top work-related concerns, and she will likely rank having access to high-quality jobs at desirable companies and having equitable opportunities to advance within those organizations at the top of the list. Guest Post By: Rania Stewart, senior product manager with Peoplefluent.com.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

If you’re a business leader looking for an opportunity to have real impact on your company — and position yourself for the top job — which career path is best? That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

If you can't answer these questions, then getting to know this leader could advance your career. I can name several times in my own career when my manager's immediate superior was a key factor. I can name several times in my own career when my manager's immediate superior was a key factor. He encouraged me to take the course.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Research we conducted at VitalSmarts shows that 97% of employees readily admit to having a “career-limiting habit” — some behavior that will forever hold them back, unless they can learn to change it. Consider the example of a CFO we worked with who had his heart set on landing the CEO job when his boss retired.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Facebook’s first HR hire, she has led global people programs, been an HR Business Partner, and CFO. Taught two of the largest and most popular courses in Harvard’s history, ‘Positive Psychology’ and ‘The Psychology of Leadership.’

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. Dan knew that if he stayed in the CFO spot beyond the IPO, the microscope would be laser focused on him. He let him take the stage.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. Dan knew that if he stayed in the CFO spot beyond the IPO, the microscope would be laser focused on him. He let him take the stage.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Historically, Shell’s top leaders spent their careers at the company. But unlike many Shell leaders, Voser’s career was not continuous. He spent two years as the CFO of power and automation company ABB, from 2002 to 2004, before returning to Shell as CFO. I wanted that experience.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

For example, a divisional controller may report directly to the CFO and on a dotted line to the VP of the division; which ensures that the controller knows what the "internal customer" (the VP) needs as well as what the direct boss (the CFO) wants. Career planning Managing up Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

And there is perhaps no setting that shapes careers, salaries, and lives like annual performance evaluations. Of course, doing so requires managers also check their likability and similarity biases, to make sure the opinions are fair. How to address the bias.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. Even in the most well-oiled CEO succession processes, one piece is almost always missing: preparing the current CEO for the next phase in his or her career. We studied the post-CEO careers of 50 Chief Executives in the Fortune 500, and interviewed 13 of them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Chinese women in powerful business positions include Wei Sun Christianson , CEO of Morgan Stanley, China ; Mei Yan , Managing Director of MTV Networks, China; and Mary Ma , former CFO of Lenovo and managing director in global equity giant TPG, who recently started her own investment fund. The payoff?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

His father demanded absolute commitment to the business, forcing his son to be “all in” and to follow the career path set down for him in early adolescence. Of course, finding a balance is difficult in a publicly-traded company, too, but in a family business the boundary between professional and personal lives is often fuzzy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Of course it is asked most often in a job interview, but it may also come up in a conversation at a networking event or a cocktail party. Knowing and communicating your career goals is challenging for even the most ambitious and focused person. In today's work world, careers take numerous twists and turns and the future is often murky.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Women begin their careers with ambitions that are just as high as their male peers , but before long they scale back their goals and shy away from competing for these jobs. The reason, many assume, is because women are risk averse or lack confidence, or maybe because they have different career preferences than their male colleagues do.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2015

But as I learned over the course of my career, there’s a better approach with boards. The meetings themselves, aside from the CFO’s report on financials, focused on discussions of the main issues. They hold off on revealing the deeper challenges or complexities that might provoke tough questions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2011

The topics covered in many first-year microeconomics MBA courses, for instance, are a subset of those contained in Section III of Economics for Dummies. I credit that human capital bump for a wide-ranging and successful business career, one that included stints as CFO, GM, entrepreneur, and consultant.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Believing that the company needs a change of course and a new kind of leader—one with more relevant experience and a more future-oriented perspective—the board passes over senior executives, who have “aged out” of consideration, and chooses a less seasoned leader.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). ” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. We call everybody within the company a “client.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

Timothy Butler, a senior fellow and the director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School, agrees that self-assessments aren't the best way to evaluate performance, but believes they do serve a purpose: "They're an important source of information about what happened in the past year," Butler says. "Be Ask for what you need.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

As one example, we worked with a rising-star 40-something executive, who had reached a career crisis — feeling deeply unhappy at work (despite being fast-tracked and assigned to critical firm initiatives) and underappreciated at home. Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm. Yes, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Just the Job!: Of course, you need to do this carefully so you don''t come off as confrontational or defensive. Address career blemishes. Career planning Hiring Job search' Smart and Fast Strategies to Get the Perfect Job , agrees. Not their real names.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

He was the CFO of their company, a software start-up with about 75 employees. The CEO even seemed to reference them at the all-staff meeting he’d called to announce the new rules—“Of course, we’re not trying to break up any happy couples!”—which Of course, she was trying to get past it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In fact, only eight percent of companies’ CEOs believe that their business model will remain economically viable if their industry continues to digitize at its current course and speed. And in each of these situations, there were young gifted leaders that had the foresight to use these new categories as rocket fuel for their careers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

And of course, lousy leadership is usually the root cause of business failures. External perception can be measured by awards, such as CEO Magazine “Best Companies for Leaders” and hundreds of individual leadership awards (CEO of the Year, CIO of the year, CFO of the Year, etc…). External perception of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

The four weeks since hackers had attacked his company had been the most stressful of Jake Santini’s career. The plan was to go public next year, and Jake and his CFO had been trying to cut costs, but they had mostly spared the IT group. “Of course, it was,” Michelle responded. Some of that was true.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Some people’s careers take off, while others’ take longer — or even stall out. They do it by making bold career moves over the course of their career that catapult them to the top. We found that three types of career catapults were most common among the sprinters. John Holcroft/Getty Images.

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