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. Authority on new technology and communication.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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

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

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 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. This argument was derided by IT supply-side executives such as Steve Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, and Scott McNealy, but CEOs quietly applauded it.

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 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

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

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

But even if you don’t have a team of direct reports, we are all leaders who come from different walks of life with varied experiences that shape our core values. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." ​ ​1.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

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

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

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 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. These lessons are valuable, but incomplete for today’s world.

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Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

CEOs face countless decisions. While the obvious decisions that CEOs need to get right involve strategy and competitive advantage, too many executives delegate away three critical decisions that they need to own: decisions about goals, resource allocation, and people. The brilliant decision-makers look at the runway ahead.

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P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. Where should the CAO report? In most cases today, the CAO doesn’t report directly to the CEO, but to another member of the C-suite. It is often easier to see where a CAO role should not report.

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Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Better insight from customers can drive serious growth in your company, at least according to a recent study by IBM of over 1700 CEOs. But given that today's CMO is often the main connection between the consumer and the company, a strong relationship with the CIO can allow her to leverage technology to better understand those customers.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Several years ago, she was asked to build and run a small team that would invest in start-ups aimed at bringing new technology into the company’s supply chain. Eventually, her team built a portfolio that caught the interest of the CFO and the CEO, and soon she was meeting regularly with them. It’s a tough dilemma.

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Supply Chain CFO Performance Review Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Workfront CEO Alex Shootman says digitization is happening in most companies on a function-by-function basis, leaving teams to work in silos instead of executing new strategies together. And today I’m talking with Alex Shootman, President and CEO of Workfront. ” Download this interview. Alex Shootman, Workfront.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Fortune It was perhaps this summer''s most chilling business story: the suicide of Zurich Insurance Group CFO Pierre Wauthier, who left a note condemning the company''s chair, Josef Ackermann. Internet Tech industry'

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Review CFO PR Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “ “We’re frankly scratching our heads.” And in the years that followed, conventional retailers’ confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report puny online sales. ” But it’s not happening as pundits predicted. And then the gale hit.

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Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

” Publicly, CEOs talk about digital transformation, but privately, they wonder if their efforts will be enough. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Waze, on the other hand, uses members of the Waze community to report road conditions, relying on reciprocity and appreciation as a social currency. Companies are right to be worried.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

For a company our size, with reported revenue of $24.4 the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). Typically for an internal consulting group, we had to grow gradually as we demonstrated the quality of our work.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I refuse to dignify this attack with a response,” said Henry Guillart, the CEO, just hours after Hughes had given his initial negative presentation at an investor conference in New York. Densmor, Terranola’s CFO, saw those words on Twitter about one minute after Hughes had uttered them. As CFO, A.J. Confident words.

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Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

When Ken had asked Rising Sun’s CEO, Daishi Isharu, for permission to do so, his boss had laughed heartily. ” Ken turned to his CFO, expecting a reaction, and got one: “Respectfully, Mari-san, I would be extremely uncomfortable putting a request of that size to management. ” Ken said.

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Case Study Airlines COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Here are some constructive ideas: Ray Wang , Principal Analyst & CEO of Constellation Research Group outlines four personas of the next generation CIO : Chief "Infrastructure" Officer: "Keeping the lights on" and managing existing systems. Chief "Innovation" Officer: Looking for disruptive technologies to drive innovation.

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CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

By Alex Shootman, CEO, Workfront. 58% of knowledge workers say they’re so swamped with tasks that they don’t have time to think beyond their daily to-do list, according to Workfront’s State of Work report. Digital technology should be freeing us up to be more innovative and productive. That’s crazy.

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Innovation Content Team Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Phishing attacks are the cause of 90% of all data breaches and security incidents, according to the latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. The Verizon report found that employee notifications are the most common way organizations discover cyberattacks. As a result, they are also the first line of defense.

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FOB Guidelines Letter Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

There were about 10 people involved — the CEO and his direct reports — and we met for two days offsite, in a hotel, so we wouldn't be distracted. I wrote that in a journal entry about seven years ago. I still remember the meeting that finally drove me to change how I run meetings. A strategy offsite. Coming from him?

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CFO CEO Hotels Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work. Consider the case of Peter Voser, former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

George is a professor at HBS and the former CEO of Medtronic, which has been involved in one of this year’s highest-profile inversion transactions, a merger with Ireland-based Covidien. If we make it more the case that you have to base your taxes on profit reports to capital markets, that can raise a fair amount of revenue as well.

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Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8