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Elon Musk by Walter Isaascson

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Entrepreneurs are actually not risk takers,” says X.com CFO Roelof Botha. I think a huge part of the way he motivates people are these displays of sharpness, which people just don’t expect him, because they mistake him for a b r or goofball.” They’re risk mitigators. But not Musk. “He

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Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First

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This is a group that consists of the CEO, the CFO, and the CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer). The relationship between the CFO and CHRO is vital. The success of the G3 is up to the CEO, but the CFO and the CHRO “must be star performers who can learn from each other’s language and dive into each other’s business.”.

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Stop Letting the Latest Trend Dictate How You Run Your Company

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Then prepare to be surprised: Your CEO, CFO, and COO may very well give different answers. So, when thinking about your employees and talent strategies, that’s where you must start: at the top. Ask each person on your executive team what the vision is for your company. When your executives have different visions, you have a problem.

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3 Telltale Signs It’s Time to Rethink Your Executive Team

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As one anonymous Fortune 500 CEO shared: My CFO started well. In many organizations, individual team members—or the entire executive team—may stagnate in their development and gradually deteriorate in their performance. Over the first two years, he accomplished a lot to put the company on a stronger financial footing.

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The Seven Tests of A CEO

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Or as former CFO of the Disney Interactive Media Group, Bruce Gordon, puts it, “Very few people are bad at their job, but many are not as good as they must be.”. They need to have a “forward radar,” says the former CEO of Aetna, Ron Williams. We debate like we’re right, listen like we’re wrong, and then decide, commit, and lead together.

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Entrepreneurial Leadership

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Joel Peterson has been around the block serving as a leader in various roles—CEO, CFO, founder, investor, entrepreneur—and is currently the chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. It is a mindset that is even more critical in today’s unstable world and is the sine qua non of crisis leadership.

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7 Guiding Principles for Developing Leadership Talent

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Elevate it to the same level as the CFO. And you should “review people as thoroughly and regularly as you review operations, business performance, strategy, and budgets.”. A business partnership with human resources. The HR function will only be as strong as the CEO wants it to be. Continuous learning and improvement.