N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Research done by Statista found that the executive search firm industry has more than doubled in size over the last decade due to increased demand for its solutions. C-Suite: CAO, COO, CFO, CTO, etc. A retained firm will partner with you in finding senior executives who can play a pivot role in your organization’s future success.

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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. Software and app developers. Business development is the only job description based on power skills. Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO). Digital marketing and strategy specialists.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

The obstacles women face within the workforce and an intimate telling of how female leaders across industries successfully broke through the glass ceiling. Fisher Over the past 20 years, Fisher has developed trusted relationships with a broad cross-section of global business leaders and the companies they shape.

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Succession Open-book Leadership Styles Leadership 74

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

Case in point: although the majority of all CEOs are extroverts, 75 per cent of Google’s senior leadership are introverts , according to Moore, since most of them come from the IT industry. Organisational leaders at all levels can learn how to bring out the best in introverts and extroverts. Here’s how: 1. That’s no doubt coming.

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CFO Education Diversity Reference 272

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Objectives: Develop strategic plan for 2014+. Develop, update and refine plan through 2014. CFO $$ talk: Comparison of past to present financial Profit & Revenue. CEO State of the Industry. Industry report. Teams report out what they developed. Gather ideas from key staff. Bonus Discussion.

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Strategic Planning Planning Company CFO 132

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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Leadership Styles CFO Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 120

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sure, a disclosure is immensely beneficial in terms of buttressing industrial safeguards, national and global security, and customer protection – not to mention mitigating the longer-term repercussions of an attack – but so too can disclosure exact lasting damage on a bottom line. Make no mistake: this problem is only getting worse.

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Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 73

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2018

However, if you make a conscious effort to ensure you’re continuously learning, taking in new information, and keeping up with industry trends, you should find that your business continues to grow. If you don’t have one already, hiring a CFO or accountant is a good idea if you need help managing your money as a business.

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Tips Management Budgeting Discount 51

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. Formerly the Managing Partner of Trammel Crow, one of the nation’s leading real estate developers, he is chairman of the investment firm he founded in 1995. Hewitt at John Deere.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

It sounds like an easy win-win, but industrial companies have had a harder time making it all work for two key reasons: costs and accounting. First, due in large part to the scale and consistency of their energy purchasing, industrials already pay the lowest rates for power. Get early buy-in. For Owens Corning, the locations matter.

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Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

The answer to this question varies greatly depending on experience, industry and many other factors. Too often we leave the worries and cares about money to the CFO’s office. Achieving business success seems highly complex at face value. However, the principles that lead to success are not necessarily complex or difficult.

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Succession CFO Ethics Taylorism 133

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Yet companies continue to invest in skills development only to be disappointed by little or no difference in performance. For different industries, these 2 patterns may play a more important role for leaders. We all know people who are highly educated and/or talented, yet just get by in their work role. Shared Responsibility.

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Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

And, I had to wonder, how motivating did Colleen Johnston, CFO, TD Bank Financial Group find that comment? And, quite frankly, no amount of “internal mentoring programs” and “industry awards” can hide the disconnect between what you’re talking and what you’re actually walking. And, that’s my rant for today. Happy leading!

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CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Establishing a personal brand carries even more weight when you’re responsible for developing and leading others. The following personal brand statement examples come from a variety of people across numerous industries and professions. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

ORLY: Talent wars are everywhere in every industry in every region. Actually, reading the book reminded me of this old anecdote that I heard one time, a conversation between a sort of unnamed CEO and an unnamed CFO and essentially, the CFO was asking, “What happens if we invest all this money to develop our people and they leave?”

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Since then, as the composition of top executive teams has changed, responsibility for leading strategy development has been shared by more members of the C-suite. The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. There are two reasons for this.

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Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

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

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Only when they began to really analyze their marketing costs did the company realize that it was spending three times the industry benchmark on coupons and 50 percent more on research. CMOs need to start building this relationship by having a clear understanding of what CFOs expect.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. It’s a core part of the CFO’s work: Last year Oka personally met with 145 investors and his IR team collectively met with more than 500.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

Either you couldn''t develop an insider, or the external environment has shifted enough that you need someone who can come in and really drive transformational change. You actually get a bit disadvantaged if you''ve been in the same company or the same industry your whole career, as an HR person. It could be. Why the discrepancy?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

That's one reason that job rotation is more common than ever as a development tool. A handful of industries are still local — waste management, for instance — but most companies are competing on a global scale at some level. So, for instance, if you want a top finance job it's not enough to be the best CFO in the U.S.;

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Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

.” Pandas look innocent, but their powerful jaws deliver a bite stronger than a jaguars’ Pandas can be painfully costly to individuals whose careers stall for reasons unbeknownst to them and to organizations and managers unable to develop talented leaders to their full potential.

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Borrowing and lending talent is common and even essential in one particular industry — professional soccer. Tottenham Hotspur feared that the lack of first team action would stunt Caroll’s development and growth.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 13, 2017

After all, I had earned it, having just finished a 28 year run as a CPA, cable company VP of Operations, football stadium project manager, VP of Development for another cable company, and finally, a cable company SVP of Operations. As a project consultant with Northland Communications , keeping a connection with the cable/broadband industry.

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CPA COO CFO Leadership 192

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

In her current job as executive vice president of global product development, she is responsible for the lineup of the future and the components that will make cars greener, safer, more user-friendly. She is a clearly a team player with the support of her peers, such as CFO Dan Ammann, promoted to president working with Barra.

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Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. They’re often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. Development matters. Leadership & Developing People Book.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Earlier in her career, she left a position as SVP of business development and emerging businesses to join Boston Scientific in a senior line job. She changed industries from private equity investing to technology; she changed geographies by moving from New York to San Francisco; and she changed functions from M&A and investing to HR.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Focusing on additive contribution, a term we developed in a collaboration with Alix Hughes , diversity program leader at Amazon, is a powerful way to avoid sameness in a team and to foster inclusion and innovation. In reality, many of the top performers at Intuit, including the CEO and CFO, did not hold degrees from an Ivy League school.

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Power Management Diversity CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Some recent CEO appointments in these industries include Yahoo!’s The company is anticipating disruptive or disorienting forces, such as unfamiliar regulatory pressures, industry consolidation, complex emerging technologies, or changing consumer behavior. A leapfrog candidate should never be the “least worst” option.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Japan’s Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry published The Ito Review in 2014 which points to integrated reporting as a way to combat “short-termism.” The CFO of Halogen Software, Pete Low, said “Given the strategic relevance of HR information, it’s timely that companies are working on enhanced reporting.

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

This requires total transparency in the way individuals are assessed, developed, and promoted. They have to be prepared to accept honest feedback on their development needs. Companies must assure an even playing field for every employee to realize their potential and contribute towards the success of the organization.

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Team Diversity CFO TSR 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

A charismatic CEO, imported from outside the industry, was making bold, expensive investments in new markets. After a series of expensive problems with its Dreamliner development, its CEO, Jim McNerney , revised the company’s innovation ethos, declaring its era of boundary-pushing “moon shots” over. Take Boeing.

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CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Wilson was an industry outsider (he had previously worked as a management consultant and the head of corporate planning at an airline), whom Stemberg described as a “provocateur” and an “in-your-face kind of guy.” So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer.

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Track competitors’ MROI to gauge how your company is performing against others in the industry. “In principle, managers should try to estimate the full cost of the marketing activity, including creative development, media spend, and customer-facing staff time.” As a result, CFOs and CMOs are often at odds.

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