article thumbnail

Entrepreneurial Leadership

Leading Blog

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. Set Memorable, Aligned, and Doable goals. If you’re making a lot of easy calls, you’ve failed to delegate.

article thumbnail

November 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

But increasing responsibility without also delegating authority is a recipe for disaster. And simply delegating is not always the answer either.” In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company. Or do you focus on just one big goal?”

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

November 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

But increasing responsibility without also delegating authority is a recipe for disaster. And simply delegating is not always the answer either.” In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company. Or do you focus on just one big goal?”

article thumbnail

No Better Time

Persuasive Powerhouse

The pressure on you to make bottom line goals is even greater than it has ever been. In the stress of making bottom line goals, you may be missing an opportunity to achieve more than you have. The CFO owns a couple. The improvement of the economy is slower than most would like. You are making do with fewer resources.

Greenleaf 200
article thumbnail

Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

For example, A successful CFO is likely to have such MAPs (Motivation and Attitudinal patterns) as — strong motivation toward procedures over options; a preference for solving problems over focus on goals; and a high past time orientation that drives focus on traditions, past experience and benchmarks. Goal Orientation.

article thumbnail

You Can't Argue With Crazy | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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.

Blog 313
article thumbnail

Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

We all know that CFOs are accountable for the financial stewardship of the enterprise. They fulfill this role by delegating responsibility and establishing control systems such as budgets, directives, audits, and oversight to drive fiscal compliance. Technology is intimidating, particularly to non-Millennials.

CIO 8