Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. Your CFO should be Captain America with the emotional range of a rock.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. Previously Kevin was a leader in Electronic Data Systems and Ford. Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. Organizations, hiring managers, and HR need to keep legal compliance in mind when they add psychometric tests to their pre-employment screening system. Know the law.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. Organizations, hiring managers, and HR need to keep legal compliance in mind when they add psychometric tests to their pre-employment screening system. Know the law.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Complete transparency in work settings may foster the attitude among employees that, because the company theoretically knows “everything,” they’re entitled to cheat the system when they can get away with it. Only leaders perceived as moderate in their ethical requests were effective in promoting positive employee behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Employees and other constituents should expect HR to hold leaders accountable for fiduciary and strategic risks, just as a CFO would be expected to hold leaders accountable for a risky pattern of using corporate funds or resources. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.

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