Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Chief Financial Officer. You need a numbers guy to navigate your company to financial success. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements. Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

If you work in the field long enough, you can go from a staff accountant to an executive position such as a CFO. Chief Financial Officer (CFO). CFO is one of the end goal positions for all accountants. The more compound the organization is, the more vital the character of a CFO becomes. Bookkeeper.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

It’s usually the job of a bank’s chief financial officer (CFO), chief risk officer (CRO), or chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee tech implementation. It won’t be as simple as rolling the software out across your enterprise, then expecting everything to go smoothly from thereon.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

Put it this way: just because an agency placed a technical Project Manager at a software company doesn’t mean they can find the right Chief Financial Officer or Director of Marketing in the same industry. First, the roles (or needs) of those previous searches may have been significantly different from yours.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC). Compliance.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Chief Financial Officer: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in incremental profits.”. Chief Marketing Officer: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can increase our European market share by X%.”. The CFO will care about profits.

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 18, 2023

One of my coaching clients is an entrepreneur whose business looks great on paper. In year 2–3, she had made a whopping 83% profit. Everything seemed to be going perfectly. Yet, when we took what I call a “strategic pause” to review her goals, I noted that personally, she wasn’t doing great.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 6, 2023

During my CEO Group workshops, I often ask the members to pair off and thumb-wrestle one another. I tell them that the CEO who gets the most pins in thirty seconds will win a fictional $100,000. After thirty seconds, I asked each pair who got the most pins.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 24, 2023

China has leapt ahead of the US in the race to global domination. Many statistics support this conclusion, but four Latin American countries offer very recent, specific examples. They serve as harbingers and also as warnings that the US needs to change its policies.

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CEO Insider

JULY 30, 2023

“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology, not the other way around.” – Steve Jobs How very true and seemingly evident Steve Job’s observation is.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 14, 2023

When I was an architecture student in Delft over 20 years ago and working at my first job, I remember the moment I started using AutoCAD. It was like switching on a light. Although the 2D software had been around since 1982, most of the drafting was still being done by hand. Soon, computer-aided design […].

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CEO Insider

JULY 28, 2022

Research shows that narcissists tend to be attracted to leadership positions as they are positions of power, so they need to learn how to balance selfishness with selflessness. Narcissistic leaders’ self-centered personalities not only disrupt organizational culture, but they can also derail an organization and leave it unviable.

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 14, 2022

What is the halo effect? How can it affect people? How much is it likely to distort reality? There are many questions arising on this, perhaps, too little considered phenomenon. Knowledge is one of the most important characteristics that allows us to understand the surrounding environments, our needs and much more.

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 9, 2022

In reference to this, does anyone who has access to a computer or a reasonably recent mobile device really yearn for the “good old days?” Can most visualize making decisions on what to sell, who to sell stuff to and how best to do that without being immersed entirely in the wonderful world of research? […]. The post SOPHISTICATED RESEARCH?

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CEO Insider

MARCH 2, 2022

Marketing people not only wear many hats, have unique skill sets, and are creatives by nature. They also live and breathe by nuance. Talking to marketing professionals is like knowing the technical jargon of coders or the medical terminology of physicians. However, most businesses don’t know the lingo of marketing.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 6, 2022

Some social and business commentators and experts refer to our current time as the ‘age of entitlement’. Entitlement has always been present in our workforce–to some degree. Social norms have changed dramatically over the past few decades.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated transformation within the event space. While disruptive, this change isn’t necessarily negative. In fact, the transition from in-person to virtual and hybrid events has increased the reach, impact, and measurability of your events. This increase, however, requires a larger support team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

As described in the HBR article “ Sustainability a CFO Can Love ,” by the company’s chief financial officer Kurt Kuehn and Lynnette McIntire, it is used to display proposed initiatives in terms of their relevance internally to the company’s strategy and externally to outside parties.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 26, 2023

As an investor, I see a lot of business plans and hear hundreds of great pitches. Contrary to what Shark Tank implies, investment decisions aren’t made in just a few minutes.

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CEO Insider

MAY 25, 2022

Ready to see the 5 hints on how to answer a particular question in your job interview? Let’s have a look Understanding the basics People want to see your passion for the particular job and make sure you have fully understood what this job is all about. For that reason, when they post the job […].

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

In one recent case, the chief financial officer of a small company was fired for possible expense account violations, and he was also seen as a poor strategist and weak team player. The former CFO did not go quietly. This has become a favorite management insight as I advise bosses and boards.

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 14, 2022

‘Tis the season for reflection – a time to learn, grow and appreciate all that’s good in this one precious life of ours. As I look back on the past year, it’s easy to point out where I could have done more, how I could have done better, or whether I served the people I […].

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The technology sector experienced unprecedented growth in 2020 and 2021, but this year has proven that growth was inevitably going to slow. Global recession is looming, and governments are doing everything they can to support local businesses. But cross-border e-commerce growth is still possible with the right tools and mindset.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 5, 2022

Everyone who knows me, knows I reject ‘The Great Resignation’ – it’s a million-dollar catch-phrase, but it’s quite dangerously misleading. This is not a great resignation – which suggests that people have made a sudden decision to do something dramatic that we didn’t see coming. Most of the labour market movement we have seen in […].

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2011

My boss, the Chief Financial Officer, set lofty goals. The already overburdened technology team had no bandwidth and the CFO would not accept changing priorities of other efforts. Ultimately, I was called into the CFO’s office and asked for my resignation. I was shocked by the expectation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. There is good news for chief financial officers, too, in these analyses.

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Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

According to ThedaCare's chief financial officer, Tim Olson , top management viewed it as a significant waste of time. CFO Ric Magnuson says that the change has forced managers to develop a much better understanding of the work in their departments, particularly which activities truly matter. There have been challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. Stemberg turned to Basil Anderson, who had tackled similar challenges as CFO of Campbell Soup and Scott Paper. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed. Like Wilson, Anderson was able to lead the senior team.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

If you want to be a chief financial officer (CFO), identify five CFOs who you admire or who are well regarded in your industry. The interviews will provide you with the raw material to create your personal experience map. Identify experts inside and outside your company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Over the past 30 years, most companies have added new C-level roles in response to changing business environments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For example, Tim Sheahan, Chief Financial Officer for a large division of a multi-national corporation, aspires to become CFO of a Fortune 100 company in the future. Rather than wait for an opening, they troll for talent both inside the organization and externally to find people to add to the team when the time is right.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

An effective CEO makes things happen principally through his executive colleagues, aptly called “Chiefs” too: the CFO, CCO, and COO. Of course, given that these team members are Chiefs as well, they also should not be doing too much, either.

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