Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 14, 2015
I spent the first decade of my career in HR. I spent the next decade keeping my HR and Finance partners as close as possible. The HR (or training) organization becomes the dumping ground for people who struggled to “carry a bag” in the sales function or meet their P & L in an executive role.
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2019
L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P.
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The Center For Leadership Studies
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) still matters as does the P&L (profit and loss statement) and the deadline for 2021 projections (who can imagine?!) Targets and goals that were adjusted now loom large as year-end approaches. is just around the corner.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 28, 2010
Mentoring is defined as career advice and guidance and sponsorship is advocacy. High performing women need to take control of their own career advancement. Communicate your intention to advance your career. o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. They need to advocate for an advocate or sponsor.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 9, 2017
Formal degree programs excel at general education: an MBA, for instance, gives you a little bit of everything you might need as a leader, from finance to marketing to operations. In my first book, I profiled Joanne Chang , who started her career as a management consultant and ultimately became a prominent restaurateur.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. You have to be constantly learning.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 10, 2012
Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.
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