CEO Insider

JULY 25, 2020

Consider this: Dealogic reports there were 175 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in 2019, while 47 firms were taken private. I’ve been a CFO at […]. Lots of companies move from private to public and public to private.

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IPO CFO Succession Licensing 114

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

James asked the CEO to approve the purchase of the equipment and its immediate rollout, instead of waiting another year, as first planned. Nevertheless, the CEO was skeptical and proceeded with the growth plans, which led to the company being significantly disrupted when the COVID cases and its deluge of constraints struck. Conclusion.

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Constraint COO CFO Webinar 150

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 18, 2022

This bureaucracy is compounded by the lack of uniform reporting structure, with some reporting to the CEO, others to the CFO, and others again the chief strategy officer. This is a marked difference from traditional VC firms, which can act extremely quickly once investment decisions are made.

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Short-term CFO Bureaucracy Long-term 100

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The report noted that not only do 30% of top business leaders in the U.S. C-Suite: CAO, COO, CFO, CTO, etc. A retained firm will partner with you in finding senior executives who can play a pivot role in your organization’s future success. They concentrate on obtaining top talent for senior-level and executive positions.

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Execution CTO COO CFO 217

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2013

CEO ‘Most Important Meeting of the Year’. CEO updates and successes of 2013. CFO $$ talk: Comparison of past to present financial Profit & Revenue. CEO State of the Industry. CEO State of the Industry. Industry report. Teams report out what they developed. Staff arrives, eats. Why are we here?

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Strategic Planning Planning Company CFO 132

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

CEO ownership and strong commitment at the top. If the CEO owns the process and believes in the strategic importance, good things will happen. While it's important for the CEO to own the process, even the best CEOs will need assistance. This is where it all starts and ends. A dedicated, competent, trusted support team.

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Process Execution CFO CEO 227

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

And, sadly, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) reports that 60 percent of small companies are unable to sustain their business more than six months following a cyberattack. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? Or the CEO who shares her password with her husband and children so they can access her mail and messaging accounts.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 97

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. They will believe what they want to believe regardless of what they hear or what they observe.

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 401

HR Digest

AUGUST 29, 2020

The Australian Financial Review recently reported that the first round of lay-offs occurred earlier this month, and more cutoffs are yet to come. ” Accenture has cut down travel budgets, cut back contractors were required, and was limiting new recruiting, the report stated.

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Attrition Crisis CFO Long-term 52

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are things that only the CEO can do. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. If you’re the founder or CEO, there’s no one else at your level in the organization. Everyone reports to you and looks to you for answers. T homas Brattle Gannett, aka “Toby” is the global chair of N2Growth’s Board and CEO practice.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 203

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

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. Recently, in a conversation with the CFO of a blue chip company, I observed an example of the impact of this increased compensation.

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Health Care CFO Competitive Advantage Outsourcing 132

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2012

Journal arguing that CFOs should report directly to the audit committee of the board. Not "report regularly." Not "report in executive session, without the presence of the CEO." No, Minow is suggesting that CFO essentially work for the audit committee. The CFO is most often the closest advisor to the CEO.

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CFO Committee GAAP Proposal 12

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

Eagle Hill reports that replacing a mid-level employee – including hiring and training costs, in addition to lost revenue and lost productivity – can add up to 150% of that employee’s salary. According to Autumn Manning, CEO of YouEarnedIt, an employee engagement firm. And it’s costing companies a pretty penny to replace workers.

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Charan Attrition Morale Survey 229

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Additionally Jackson now had to attend the Executive Briefing Meetings where the CEO, COO, CFO and all the General Mangers from the other Manufacturing areas of the plant met weekly to find solutions and update status on various projects. While adding value by guiding any or all of them into alternative paths when necessary.

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Case Study COO Metrics Objective 147

Mike Cardus

JUNE 3, 2011

Last week I met with a CFO who was told by his boss, the CEO, that he needs to “start speaking up more at board meetings.” When we met this week he has a list of signals + cues that people were ready to listen and reported that he has been able to understand and utilize this list to talk more to his boss, wife, friends and employees.

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CFO Executive Coaching Constraint Morale 68

Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 15, 2011

For example, you don't want the CEO and CFO coming to you and saying, "You never justify why we're spending so much money, so we're cutting your budget." Find the right reporting tools. Think of how you can explain your activities and results using terms that resonate with them.

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Advice Execution Marketing Prahalad 107

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 16, 2011

and he recently identified disappointing findings in a report released by The Economist , titled " Re-engaging with engagement: Views from the boardroom on employee engagement." Yet, only 12% report that their companies "regularly and often" confront staff with "continually low engagement."

Execution 56

Execution CIO CFO Survey 56

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Organizations are generally aware of the importance of succession plans, but for some reason tend to limit that planning to the very top positions: CEO, president, and the like. With a capable replacement on hand, managers can also be more candid with reports because they do not feel held hostage by employees who are marginally performing.

Leadership Styles 87

Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Organizations are generally aware of the importance of succession plans, but for some reason tend to limit that planning to the very top positions: CEO, president, and the like. With a capable replacement on hand, managers can also be more candid with reports because they do not feel held hostage by employees who are marginally performing.

Leadership Styles 78

Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. and (ii) how can digital firms improve their financial reports to communicate sources of value creation in their businesses?

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

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. US News and World Report – One of America’s 25 Best Leaders. Non-profit CEOs. Corporate CEOs.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Guest post by Dave Yarin: It was April 2010, and a Fortune 500 CEO would utter one of the most ill advised yet memorable lines in corporate history. 1 He had succeeded John Browne in 2007 as CEO following Browne''s prostitution and perjury scandal, along with leaving BP with a checkered safety record.

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CEO Compliance Organization Report 240

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

This week Uber took a major step toward righting the ship with the choice of Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO. Since its founding just eight years ago, Uber has become one of the best-known brands in the world, has presence in over 80 countries, has market share reported at 77% in its core U.S.

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CEO IPO Energy COO 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2015

It’s understandable that most CEOs try to manage their boards. With directors often attempting to take a more active role in decisions these days, CEOs naturally feel a bit threatened. The meetings themselves, aside from the CFO’s report on financials, focused on discussions of the main issues.

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CEO 360-Degree Feedback Management Charisma 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Have you ever pondered what you''d ask the CEO if you were made chairman of the board for 10 minutes and could pose one question? Nothing about markets or strategies — CEOs have canned answers for that kind of thing. You''d want a question that would strip away the cloak of invincibility and reveal the CEO''s innermost fears.

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CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The answer involves radically reframing one of the mainstays of the C-suite — the role of the CFO. It’s no longer adequate or acceptable for CFOs to simply focus on managing the financial risks of a company. Some CFOs are working with their CISOs and CIOs to actually model their cyber exposure gap.

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CFO CIO Budgeting Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

This argument was derided by IT supply-side executives such as Steve Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, and Scott McNealy, but CEOs quietly applauded it. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. Because they distance themselves from IT, CEOs don''t grasp its subtleties. They had suspected all along that IT really doesn''t matter.

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 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

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” The CEO, grinning, agreed with her. The CMO began by meeting with her direct reports.

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CFO CEO Agility Marketing 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.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

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. As a CEO once said, "If all we have is opinions, then my opinion is the only one that counts.

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CFO Advertising Finance Marketing 8

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

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. It had been a long day at the company’s Birmingham, England, headquarters, and in the early evening the two were going over the evaluations of each of Lance’s direct reports.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

One CFO I know managed finance for a spin-off firm when it went public and then returned to the parent company in a corporate position. Another CFO led finance for multiple units so he could gain a breadth of knowledge across the business before becoming the corporate CFO. CEO Chemistry.

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CFO How To CIO Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

. “I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO. Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. Like many CEOs, he had had no time to plan his retirement — all his focus had been on running the company. ” It can be especially hard on CEOs who are women.

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 13