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. She was respected by colleagues and employees, and over time had become the right-hand assistant to the CFO. How to Increase Your Executive Presence.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

He has observed in many companies that a C-suite team represents a balance of types , for instance, an introverted CEO who chooses an extroverted CFO to bring strengths to the table that he or she doesn’t have. “On On the senior leadership team, you need thoughtful analysis and you need passion and excitement,” adds Moore.

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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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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 7, 2014

Using a combination of Talent Pool Development + Mastering Organizational Complexity. . Consulting and examining this with the company CEO, CFO, COO and Sr. When the going gets tough…The tough default to their level of competence. Below is a story from a company I consulted & coached the management team. Photo Credit.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Eagle Hill reports that replacing a mid-level employee – including hiring and training costs, in addition to lost revenue and lost productivity – can add up to 150% of that employee’s salary. Sanders recommends training if the employee lacks the necessary skill(s). And it’s costing companies a pretty penny to replace workers.

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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. We know the Resistance Loop. For that loop to exist the Cooperation Loop must also exist. I argue that it works way better than the resistance loop and the results are greater for everyone.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year). One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

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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 8, 2011

She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal. Develop Your Own Advisory Board Post by Jane K. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The CFO will care about profits. The CFO might be interested but would wonder how profitable those sales will be. He’s the managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a leadership development training firm. I’m making a pitch for entering the Italian and German markets no matter who my stakeholder is.

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Metrics CFO Chief Financial Officer Marketing 50

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. Under-performers were trained to replicate motivation patterns of high performers. The key for this company was to train each leader in their own motivation patterns, as well as those of the other leaders.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2012

Their foundation program is a strengths-based leadership development system based on their bestselling The Extraordinary Leader book. It’s a big step in our company’s growth and development. He’s one of my leadership development heroes ! There are many reasons we decided to partner with Zenger Folkman.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Gianpiero Petriglieri – Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD , Director of the Management Acceleration Programme at INSEAD , medical doctor and psychiatrist by training. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. HR and talent development roles with General Motors Australia.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

If you can't find 'em, you better keep 'em and train 'em, say three McKinsey consultants writing in their firm's eponymous quarterly. Facebook Flop Won't Scare Off Growth-Company Listings (CFO). What to do? Has big pharma cracked the code to solving their pipeline problems? But this is no sure winner. So what are you waiting for?

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Additionally Jackson now had to attend the Executive Briefing Meetings where the CEO, COO, CFO and all the General Mangers from the other Manufacturing areas of the plant met weekly to find solutions and update status on various projects. Jackson had to develop a skill in being heard. Resolution.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A new study by The Bridgespan Group, based on a survey of more than 400 nonprofit C-suite executives and dozens of interviews, surfaced this surprising finding and discussed how to address this leadership development deficit. Another example of successful talent development and mentoring is Good Shepherd Services in New York.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

But what's really going on is that Jeff Bezos has trained elements of the investment community to expect that low profits (or big losses) now represent investments that will eventually pay off, not signs of trouble. Amazon has this permission because it has trained its shareholders to believe that everything will work out in the end.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The already overburdened technology team had no bandwidth and the CFO would not accept changing priorities of other efforts. I saw no other choice and worked furiously to develop the best plan possible. Eventually, the system failed completely – a result of poor planning, insufficient resources and inadequate training.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Technology 185

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

Every day, business people face critical buying decisions – from new software to revamped website design to employee training programs. The systems designers were able to elicit the right data and develop the exact right design the first time with no redos. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

They''d all read innumerable books on leadership, taken leadership skills assessments, and attended multiple training programs — including executive leadership programs at top business schools. The goal of any leadership development program is to change behavior. Integrate leadership development into the work itself.

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Leadership Committee CFO Learning-by-Doing 12

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. “I was surprised by how much I personally enjoyed running the HR function versus taking on a CFO role,” said Reses. Lucia Luce Quinn is Chief People Officer at Forrester Research.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

In addition to the real-world knowledge that students will derive from the cases, readers will take away research-based templates and models that they can use in developing or consulting with small businesses. It starts with employees who have been trained in the science of service. Provide special training for frontline employees.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets : Why buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell and what you can do about it by Sharon Drew Morgen Every day, business people face critical buying decisions – from new software to revamped website design to employee training programs. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. He built a team to develop Predix, a cloud-based platform that underlies all of GE’s industrial businesses. Get people aboard through short duration training programs. Cut layers.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Allianz employees are paired with social entrepreneurs for a five-day intensive workshop following a mandatory training session that prepares employees for their assigned projects.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Australia’s main CFO forum, the G100 , has shown interest in the topic and even published a paper offering broad support for integrated reporting, arguing that “corporate reporting reform is underway and CFOs should seize the opportunity to drive the reporting agenda.”

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Others talk about scheduling team meetings to clarify roles and responsibilities within the group or the staff members they've sent to training programs. 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.

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Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

The primary objectives in creating our team were to rein in spending on external strategy firms and to attract, train, and retain top talent in the company. Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. But the key was knowing when to stop growing.

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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 12

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer. gaining experience in the many facets of workforce planning, development and analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

An interview with the board of directors is standard for the CEO, CFO, and nonprofit Executive Director hiring processes, but the group interview approach is becoming more common for many other positions. Remember the sales training workshop you went to once that taught you to sell benefits, not features ?

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Due Diligence Reference CFO Workshop 11

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Much has been written about the importance of measuring the impact of leadership development programs or systems. External perception can be measured by awards, such as CEO Magazine “Best Companies for Leaders” and hundreds of individual leadership awards (CEO of the Year, CIO of the year, CFO of the Year, etc…).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

In today’s resource-constrained environment, many of us are delivering 120% on the current demands of our job—but devoting little time to developing ourselves further or positioning ourselves for a future move. If you’re ambitious but your job offers you limited opportunities for exploration and growth, what can you do to develop new skills?

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Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 11

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. The scale and scope of this adoption effort—which involves formal training, coaching, and metrics—shouldn’t be downplayed. Building frontline capabilities.

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Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

These pieces of advice have helped “move the numbers” as part of broad-scale corporate retention programs I’ve developed. Invest significant time in training and mentoring a junior colleague so they can run the budget meetings without you. They’ve worked for the individual professionals I’ve coached.

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Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We’ve spent an awful lot of money on technology, but I still see people working in the old way,” complained the CFO of a large hospitality company. Budget for the communication, training and organizational development required to succeed. Engage your HR and Organizational Development people early. Why does this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I’m going to push more responsibility onto them, which should help them develop faster. “I’m not sure when I first asked if I thought it would be successful,” said Hickox, now CFO of Independent Bank in McKinney Texas. He had to sell the idea to both his family and the other managers at work. That was in 2008.

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