N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

The new CxO will be tasked to define and craft strategy, make investment proposals, and defend them, so they have depth in the related sector and a brain the size of an elephant. The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology.

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Execution Company Charisma Constraint 391

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

The proposal was not immediately welcomed by the companies who anticipated all sorts of problems with contracts, arrangements and equity. Historically, Shell’s top leaders spent their careers at the company. But unlike many Shell leaders, Voser’s career was not continuous. Khazanah made it work by acting as a broker.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

He told me, “I found that building one’s personal brand increases chances to get proposals to join strategic initiatives and step out of your day-to-day job for a while.”. One of my students, a mid-sized company CFO, told me that every budget season he personally went through all the budgets to identify inefficiencies.

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Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). We call everybody within the company a “client.”

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. Please don’t let that cloud your judgment as CFO.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Most companies now have more gender-balanced talent pools, especially at the early-to-mid-career levels, and are looking for ways to make sure progress continues at the mid-to-upper levels. Some of those searches, like the one, three years ago, for our CFO, took twice as long as normal. I was absolutely determined.

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Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As a growth officer in my early career with the mad men and women of McCann Ericksson , my mom could never quite grasp what I did for a living. But, when we pitched, won and delivered the phenomenon now globally known as Priceless for MasterCard, she could finally brag to her friends at my Aunt Rose's kitchen table.

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Belief Systems Tips Audience CFO 16