Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

W HEN A CEO first assumes their position or joins a new company, they’re often quick to make changes to the executive team, creating a group of trusted advisors who will drive their strategic agenda. Companies are also facing heightened expectations about their role in society. You have to put the company ahead of each business.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2014

The company was harvesting its mature and declining business in order to pump cash into its growth bets. This company had a proud tradition of investing in the development of its employees. A new CFO came on board and decided that training was a luxury that could no longer be afforded.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. Joel recaps: “Have you developed your personal brand?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

I F PEOPLE NOT COMPANIES, generate value, why isn’t talent at the center of every company’s strategy? They were designed for predictable environments, traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where lines and boxes defined how people were managed. The relationship between the CFO and CHRO is vital.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

A recent conversation with a community bank CEO focused on his vision for the company. Logic tells us we can manage cause, but only measure effect. Shifting to cause-based analysis of results positions leaders to laser-target interventions – coaching, guiding, managing or taking direct action – to change the trajectory of outcomes.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

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. The Administrator manages process with predictability and efficiency.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2013

Guest post by Great Leadership monthly contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: I recently had the opportunity to have a conversation with the president of a privately held company as part of research for a book I am writing on talent management and development within small to mid-size companies. Start sharing.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Developing The CEO Within You. What past decisions are holding the company behind? What areas might take the company to the next level? You’re moving on up.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

The accounting field offers space for professional development. 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. Cost Accountant Manager. Good luck with that.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Yet, only 9% of the largest 100 companies in the S&P500 index are led by women, shares Fisher. The traits and leadership styles adopted by women, which makes them incredibly well-suited to lead companies through the complex challenges facing our world. Aim to have at least three women on your management team and on your board.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

One of the hottest themes in management and leadership today is the importance of understanding the introvert at work. 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.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Power skills are long-lasting, transferable across a number of work environments and roles, and can developed. Business development. Digital transformation managers. Software and app developers. Business development is the only job description based on power skills. Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO).

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Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

I recently spoke with the CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing company about his new CFO who was poised to attend our flagship program for senior executives, Leadership at the Peak. He told me she was smart, very hardworking, and had been with the company in various accounting roles for the past 4 years, most recently as comptroller.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Leaders at the top of the organizational pyramid need ongoing development just as much as newly promoted supervisors. One of the challenges organizations face in developing their senior executives is the need for "mass customization". In order to do this, many organizations turn to " Individual Development Plans ", or IDPs.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

You started a company. 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.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Companies must depend on their chief human resources officers (CHROs) in creating corporate values necessary to achieve success. The HR is supposed to be a true partner to the CEO, just like the CFO. Predictions should also include the impact of changes in human resources at rival companies. That’s absolutely wrong.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 16, 2012

In many organizations and occupations, “management by walking around” and micromanagement have fell by the wayside, either by design or out of necessity. I run Executive Development Programs at a large university. After all, the role of “manager” must have been invented for a reason, right? Develop measures.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 17, 2012

I was asked by a CFO of a hospital, who attended a talk I gave on ‘ Working & Managing Across Generations ’ to contact the hospitals HR director and Workforce Education director. BUT the CFO would not be on the call. Me, “Thank you for taking your time today did CFO give you any idea into why he wanted us to talk?”.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a company is only as strong as its lowest-performing employees. Low performers in management roles contribute to attrition among high performers. And it’s costing companies a pretty penny to replace workers. “If The following is a guest piece by Terri Williams.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 7, 2014

Working for a manager who is at the same or lower level of competence as you is anger producing, uninspiring, unproductive, frustrating, demoralizing and eventually leads to underemployment. Below is a story from a company I consulted & coached the management team. Mark was the General Manager of sales. Photo Credit.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

Before starting as CFO, I repeatedly scanned through my leadership qualities, considering how I would present myself to my new colleagues. A study of UC Berkeley PhDs discovered that EQ was 40 times more powerful in predicting who achieved success in their fields than IQ ( Developing Management Skills ).

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The cooperation loop is a mindset of working to find cooperation …any size large and small and develop practice of building from that cooperation. The finance team in a Health Care Company. started by asking: What do you want the people in sales and the project managers to do? We know the Resistance Loop.

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Building Personal Strength

MAY 7, 2010

It was about Lanham Napier, CEO of San Antonio company Rackspace, which sells websites and web-based services. It's a fast-growing company with revenues approaching $1 billion. My next-door neighbor is a manager at Rackspace, so I continued reading. But his real passion was to grow a company himself.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As Ed Bernbaum, a mountaineer and Senior Fellow at the Mountain Institute writes, “Just as Everest stretches people to do more than they thought they could, so companies want to stretch their employees to reach the loftiest goals, to be number one in the field, to provide the best product or service in the industry group.”

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Upon the untimely death of the revered company president, the board must select a new leader. The leading candidate is the scheming CFO played by Frederic March, a passionless, colorless bean counter groping for power, but with no vision beyond increasing dividend payouts to stockholders. Emotion Is Integral to Quality Leadership.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The nature, intent, and consequences of an attack notwithstanding, the way companies have responded to breaches is closely related to their designation: public or private. Broadly speaking, public company CFOs are more likely to outsource cyber-security to third-party firms, while private CFOs tend to invest in in-house IT teams.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

In those days I often thought that corporate managers and professionals were lazy. Professionals and managers were working 35 to 40 hours per week. Today I am amazed at how hard corporate managers and professionals work. The CFO replied, "You are getting paid as much a partner in one of the top professional services firms.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department). How Do We Buy?

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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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Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There is a noticeable focus on “culture” lately, whether the topic is recruiting, engagement, development, retention, what have you. This (pretty long) document has evolved over the years and is often cited as an example of how that company just “gets it.” It’s all good stuff to discuss.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. The perceived need to learn something new is inversely proportional to the rank of a manager. Date Hired.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Development Progress & Complicating Factors: In general, adding “date hired” will give you a better sense of employees’ developmental progress.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. Where there is disagreement there is an inherent potential for growth and development.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

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

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

One of the most common leadership development questions that I hear from executives is, "Why does succession planning feel like such a waste of time?" Jim is the former CLO of three major companies. Here are some of our thoughts on how to make leadership succession a more relevant process in your company.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

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. The arrogant CEO doesn’t value the input of line and staff management. They have reclusive tendencies which cause them to often completely abdicate responsibility and remain disconnected from management.

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