HR Digest

MAY 2, 2024

Earlier this year, CFO Ruth Porat announced layoffs at Google’s finance department and restructuring efforts there as they moved to keep up with the shifting tech world. With such an expansive spending goal in mind, cutting down on spending wherever possible and moving to cheaper labor markets seems to be the way forward.

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Trends Decentralization CFO Bureaucracy 59

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

This fantastic news has deservedly boosted the stock market, and lots of companies are shifting to retract planned staff and budget cuts. James asked the CEO to approve the purchase of the equipment and its immediate rollout, instead of waiting another year, as first planned. COVID-19 and the Attentional Bias.

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Constraint COO CFO Webinar 150

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At N2Growth, we iteratively source and stay in the market until a finalist candidate is found. C-Suite: CAO, COO, CFO, CTO, etc. Maintaining an open dialogue with your search partner all year long allows the firm to go to market quickly when required. in 2022 alone. Senior Vice President.

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Execution CTO COO CFO 219

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

The research I’ve done shows that about 25 to 30 percent of CEOs are introverts,” explains Karl Moore, associate professor of strategy and organization at Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. Research points out that while nearly half the population is introverted, extroverts hold the majority of leadership roles.

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CFO Education Diversity Reference 272

CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Over the years in his career as the global research director of Deloitte LLP’s CFO Program, Ajit Kambil has seen countless examples of executives being promoted to C-Level positions without having the tools needed to communicate their visions to their stakeholders. “As

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Execution Strategy CFO Magazine 119

Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

NASDAQ: APPL ) has named Andrea Jung , CEO of Avon  (NYSE: AVP ), as the eigth member of its board of directors. Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, stated that Jung will bring a “new dimension&# to the company’s board. Develop Your Own Advisory Board Post by Jane K. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Press Release CEO Discount PR 124

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. There are things that only the CEO can do.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 246

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2015

You cannot dare do the same thing as an entrepreneur when you are still the HR manager, marketing guru, office manager, janitor, tech guy, sales staff, CFO and CEO. Moreover, there is simply nothing as good as seeing the product you’ve tirelessly developed begin to excel. It is an opportunity to create and be innovative.

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Entrepreneur CFO Maturity Long-term 150

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 7, 2014

Using a combination of Talent Pool Development + Mastering Organizational Complexity. . As the sales continued to drop and production pushed back Mark’s inability to keep control and adjust to the changes in the market became more and more apparent. Consulting and examining this with the company CEO, CFO, COO and Sr.

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Charisma COO CFO Executive Coaching 129

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself.

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

The following list of suggestions is my gift to you in hope that it will allow you to outsmart those that feel they cannot be outsmarted… Define Acceptable Behavior : This first thing all CEOs need to do is to accept responsibility for any “corporate crazies&# who have taken residence in their organization.

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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 313

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

When a CEO becomes a household name, that CEO may well need to get his own house in order. In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” That’s exactly what happened at Enron.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Non-profit CEOs. Former CEO, Covestor and CircleLending.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Here are the key roles that are crucial to your success as a product manager, and why they are important: Engineering/QA: The relationship with the engineering/development team is paramount for product managers. Marketing: When most people hear the word ‘marketing,’ the duties of PR and marcom are how they usually interpret it.

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Productivity Products Management Leadership 182

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

That’s largely the ethos behind accelerators such as Entrepreneur First, who back exceptional people and help them turn their intellect into marketable products and successful businesses. Who would be CEO? Who would be CFO or COO? ” Entrepreneurial team formation. Selecting the team.

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Team Entrepreneur COO CFO 86

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year). One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

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Press Release Discount PR Directory 113

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Increased Differentiation in Compensation Many studies and reports have highlighted the huge compensation increases of CEOs relative to the average salaries of the general population of employee. As CEOs have enjoyed massive increases in pay, other C-level officers - the next level down - have also noticed large increases in compensation.

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Health Care CFO Competitive Advantage Outsourcing 132

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. This critical alliance needs and deserves much greater analysis and application.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

According to Autumn Manning, CEO of YouEarnedIt, an employee engagement firm. “So Lars Sudmann, former CFO of Procter & Gamble Belgium, TEDx presenter, leadership and board advisor, and executive coach, believes that companies should provide consistent feedback to all of their employees. So, what does that look like?

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Charan Attrition Morale Survey 229

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Date Hired. That’s really short-sighted.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. That’s really short-sighted.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There is a noticeable focus on “culture” lately, whether the topic is recruiting, engagement, development, retention, what have you. At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative. It’s all good stuff to discuss.

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CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. After a few experiments, they pronounced it ready to ship to customers, and did not need to go through a formal development process. I cringed when I heard the story.

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Biotechnology Groupthink CFO Stress 41

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

When looking to hire a new CEO, corporate boards of directors are increasingly bypassing C-level executives and appointing less seasoned leaders. Some recent CEO appointments in these industries include Yahoo!’s Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend. Paul Raines.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Establishing a personal brand carries even more weight when you’re responsible for developing and leading others. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." How do you want to be recognized and what do you want to be remembered for?

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 6, 2010

A CEO asked me to coach his potential successor, the CFO. It didn't take long before I just felt that the CEO just didn't like the CFO. I brought it to his attention: "I just don't think you like the CFO." the CEO told me. I don't care if he becomes the CEO or not. That's right: It was the CEO.

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CEO CFO Skills Open-book 118

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. One area so far relatively untouched is change management.

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Thirty years ago, strategy was the CEO’s job. Since then, as the composition of top executive teams has changed, responsibility for leading strategy development has been shared by more members of the C-suite. Clearly, this result was achieved due to the foresight and trusted collaboration of the CFO, the CSO, and their teams.

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Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

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?” ORLY: Right.

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

CMOs and CFOs don't always see eye-to-eye. An article published in CFO.com indicates that in one study, more CMOs report sharing marketing information with their CFOs than CFOs reported receiving. However, in the best run companies, the relationship between CMOs and CFOs has changed radically and for the better.

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CFO Advertising Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A CEO whom we’ll call Melissa was exasperated. Having assessed over 2,000 CEOs and over 18,000 C-suite leaders since 1995, we are struck by how often careers of talented executives stall or even derail because of seemingly trivial issues, many of which are utterly fixable. .” June Buck/Getty Images.

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Yet less attention is given to one of the most important determining factors of all: Whether directors who have actually served as CEOs are driving the process. If the succession and search are not driven by those who have already run another firm, the company is, in our experience, less likely to end up with a CEO who can run this one.

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CEO Committee P&L Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? We interviewed search professionals, CEOs, and CHROs with nontraditional backgrounds to find out what happens when business leaders outside of HR move into the role. That’s precisely what we found.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

A charismatic CEO, imported from outside the industry, was making bold, expensive investments in new markets. I answered their obvious questions with my own: What new innovation initiatives had they launched, and what dedicated team had they organized, to explicitly support their CEO’s high-profile moves toward diversification?

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CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. Most of the input was neutral, which was to be expected.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13