In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. Brand Managers inherit brands and manage existing franchises. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader [link]. For as long as I can remember, the person bonded to the CEO’s hip was the CFO. Why Mission Statements Suck [link].

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Blog Mission Statement Strategic Planning Brand 222

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Operational - Know how the organization works inside and out. Sit at home and map out your operational chain from start to finish. For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely.

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CEO Development Licensing Motivation 238

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted 5-Step Plan to Developing Your Personal Brand. Then it’s no surprise that you’re not moving up in your career. Implement this 5-step plan for career advancement.” .” Find Jim on Twitter at @72keys. Joel recaps: “Have you developed your personal brand?

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 201

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative. I cut my teeth on corporate America there and have carried those lesson with me throughout my career.

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CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The perceived need to learn something new is inversely proportional to the rank of a manager. Be sure to take into account if the employee has had to switch roles multiple times, though, or make huge changes in order to accommodate different managers’ expectations. That’s really short-sighted. What story does your org chart tell?

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Seeing these connections and implications may remind you of the need to be an active learner as a leader (not a finished product). “The perceived need to learn something new is inversely proportional to the rank of a manager. These situations can stifle typical developmental-progress trajectories. That’s really short-sighted.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven.

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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 313

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. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L.

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Greenleaf Maslow Goal Goleman 200

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

However when this happens it often creates an awkward and uncomfortable set of dynamics, and there's no blueprint for how to manage them. Here's an example*: Peter was the divisional CFO for the consumer unit of a global products company. When Sarah left, Operations also was reconfigured.

Management 12

Management Restructuring CFO Operations 12

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?” ” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier.

CFO 8

CFO How To CIO Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Early in my career, when sharing a vacation house with a group of friends, I learned an important lesson from a classic book by anthropologist Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger : It takes a lot of people cooperating to keep things neat, but it takes only one disgruntled dirt-monger to mess things up. The former CFO did not go quietly.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Cooper Learning-by-Doing 15

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 13, 2017

After all, I had earned it, having just finished a 28 year run as a CPA, cable company VP of Operations, football stadium project manager, VP of Development for another cable company, and finally, a cable company SVP of Operations. Leaders need to love to solve problems driven by this curiosity.

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CPA COO CFO Leadership 192

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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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. Historically, Shell’s top leaders spent their careers at the company. Talent management Leadership Developing employees'

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. We call everybody within the company a “client.”

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

This is a boss you remember for years, one who has a lasting impact on your career. Here are two quick (disguised) examples: Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known manufacturing company. Since this was a minor operation, Sheila’s supervisor, the head of Supply Chain, paid her very little attention.

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Supply Chain CFO Performance Review Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

She said, “We all managed to make time for our executive MBAs, while still doing our day jobs. For example, a sector manager for an internet commerce organization decided to stretch her skills by forming and leading a community of marketing experts from different organizations. Career planning Leadership Managing yourself'

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Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. Don't get me wrong.

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Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

I Give This Blurb 3 Stars Operation Clean Turf and the War on Fake Yelp Reviews Businessweek Were the 19 companies accused of commissioning fake online reviews the only firms out there engaged in this nefarious practice? Andy O’Connell Career Ladder to Nowhere? Not likely. That would only tip off the mendacious.

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Review CFO PR Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

And we have figured out why: analytics forces changes on the C-suite that the CEO has to anticipate and manage, but many don’t. These forces must be understood and managed for the entire initiative to succeed. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics. Choose the right analytics leader.

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CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

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. Unlike his older brother, however, Charles has stayed and manages to survive and thrive. Very often silos are disparaged as poor management practice.

CFO 8

CFO Retail Follow-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Given that senior leaders often share the same worldview as the departing CEO and could prove to be out of touch with the changes sweeping through the industry, the board looks to the third level of management. Placing the candidate on a corporate board will help him or her gain experience interacting with directors.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If you or I were the CFO of a manufacturing company, and we were in a board meeting, and the board asked, “What is your manufacture and capacity utilization?” The first is this notion that the challenges at work, the challenges of managing modern work, really are a crisis. Think about that, Angelia.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Although the brothers were effectively the CEO, COO, and CFO, they wouldn’t talk to one another for months after a fight, not even on business matters. voting versus non-voting shareholders), participation levels (owner-operators versus passive owners), gender, and generations (senior versus next). Careers and businesses ruined.

CFO 8

CFO Positioning COO Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

What could be easier than chatting with managers you already know? Too many candidates, and hiring managers, shortchange the internal interview process; they view it as a formality and think that all of the evidence is already there. John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Just the Job!: Piece of cake, right?

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How To Reputation Case Study Career 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

However, these executives are often operating in a silent state of continual overwhelm, and the predictable consequence is disengagement. Naysayers will dismiss this idea as too unwieldy to implement, but elite managers are already doing it on an ad hoc basis, and we’ve seen it work to powerful effect on a systemic scale.

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CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

We learn who we are through what people say to us and about us," says Kathleen Reardon, a professor of management at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and author of Comebacks at Work: Using Conversation to Master Confrontation. What the Experts Say. And chances are that you sometimes perpetuate it too.

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Reputation Case Study Information CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

Consumers expect consistent products; people appreciate consistent management. And the most-successful managers must change similarly as they assume additional or different responsibilities through their careers, moving from head of sales to COO or from CFO to CEO. They are diligent and possess resilience and grit.

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Agility Balanced Scorecard COO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. The two men went way back. Vera’s Perspective.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In the past decade organizations have invested significant resources to try to address the gender gap in senior management. The only area where women pull ahead of men is in human resources, where they account for 71% of all HR managers. Brett (not his real name) was the CFO of a major multinational. Focus on Local Practices.

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Team Diversity Company Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How talent management is changing. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Then practice and apply new behavior back on the job while instituting routines for manager, peer and coach feedback.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8