Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

Lessons throughout history inform us that cause precedes effect; actions create results. Plato explained the principle of causality, saying “every­thing that becomes or changes must do so owing to some cause; for nothing can come to be without a cause (Timaeus 28a). ”

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Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leadership, especially at the C-level, is a journey of high-stakes decisions and complex challenges. Confirmation Bias: The Echo Chamber Effect The Trap: Leaders often gravitate toward information that aligns with their pre-existing beliefs, inadvertently overlooking contradictory and important evidence.

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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. What has helped to shape you as a leader?

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 9, 2015

They deliver information when required. They deliver information when required. And the cruel joke is that most leaders had the chops to make their way up the ladder and succeed — now the skills that got them there (getting things done) have no place in leadership. But what are those skills? Do you have a blind spot?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2014

I had the opportunity to sit with Lewis Booth , former CFO of Ford Motor Company, who along with the senior executive team, led the successful turnaround and global repositioning of Ford. They then use the exact same slides for their next level reviews, so everyone in management knows the same basic information in the same format.

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Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leadership, especially at the C-level, is a journey of high-stakes decisions and complex challenges. Confirmation Bias: The Echo Chamber Effect The Trap: Leaders often gravitate toward information that aligns with their pre-existing beliefs, inadvertently overlooking contradictory and important evidence.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product management — at every level — is a leadership role within the organization. They get the most up-to-date, critical information from customers of any group in the company. With this information marketing communicates the product effectively to customers and the market in general.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

When I met James as well as the company’s CEO and CFO over Zoom, I told them that we should admit that COVID-19 seriously interrupted our world and will not disappear anytime soon. Attentional bias describes our inclination to focus on details that we discover most emotionally appealing, and overlook information that we do not.

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Engaging Leader

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Marty has an MBA, spent many years in leadership roles at a Fortune 500 company, has been CFO of several organizations, and 10 years ago he started up a restaurant and catering business that he still leads today. Video: 21st Century Leadership. Engaging Leader™ Employee engagement Team leadership Why Work satisfaction'

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Senior leaders and staff benefit from enhancing their technical knowledge with natural and learned behaviors like empathy or leadership. Information security analysts. Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO). To accommodate the escalating speed of change and plans for the future, hire a new type of CFO. Big data specialists.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. 7 motivational patterns of high performance leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 16, 2012

In the absence of that kind of leadership, it’s up to us to lead ourselves. Here are a few things I’ve learned about self-leadership that might work for you: 1. That’s leadership 101, right? Develop an informal “Advisory Board”. Keep your boss informed. Have a clear set of values or principles.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The publication date of this post, December 1, 2020, marks the 20 th anniversary of our leadership development company, The Eblin Group. Likewise, we’ve had around 700 rising leaders participate in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program since the first cohort we ran in 2005.

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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. After serving in a variety of leadership roles over the last two decades, I still have a lot to learn. In my experience, the myriad of leadership characteristics can be boiled down to the Qs.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. As startups grow, leaders build and mature a HR/People strategy that is informed by and aligned with the overall business strategy. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. You’d be wrong.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

Here are a few common pitfalls we’ve observed and a few questions you can ask to make a more informed decision. The firm might have relied on their rolodex to place a CFO in New York City, but this doesn’t mean they can do the same and find you a candidate in Chicago. Patients can then make an informed decision that’s right for them.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward. Click here for more information on The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward. You just finished reading Complimentary Resource - The CFO''s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward ! by Ultimate Software. Consider leaving a comment!

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Lars Sudmann, former CFO of Procter & Gamble Belgium, TEDx presenter, leadership and board advisor, and executive coach, believes that companies should provide consistent feedback to all of their employees. He also extols the virtues of self-leadership. “A Feedback is an essential part of engaging employees.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Was struggling with sales representatives and project managers turning in expense and budget reports on-time…They told me “We have tried everything and our CFO is tired to putting out fires for us.”. I want you to focus on seeing the person who you need the finance information from as a cooperator. Cooperation Seems to Have Worked.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2023

The White House is considering a ban on ransomware payments, which could change the chief information and security officer (CISO) job. The ban would would elevate the cybersecurity conversation to the CEO, the CFO, and the board, and potentially end the practice of scapegoating CISOs when a breach happens.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 26, 2015

If a leader is someone who can persuade others to do what they don’t want to do and like it, what we have found is that he can tap that quality to convince a person to reveal truthful information, even when that person has a very good reason to want to conceal it.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Further, if the rearguard strategy backfires, or is exposed by the press, this can amplify the damage to a company’s brand and leadership, not to mention potential legal consequences if a court can prove negligence. Further, HIPAA governs how any company, public or private, handles personal health information.

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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. Adding this information increases the complexity of the org chart, though, and may help you see the web of connections and future implications.

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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. Adding this information increases the complexity of the org chart, though, and may help you see the web of connections and future implications.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The Unaware CEO : These CEO’s will take any report or piece of information at face value. They fail to seek clarification, validation, or proof supporting the information they have been fed. moravecglobal Here's another example of disconnected leadership and the consequences for, in this case, students, faculty and taxpayers.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 16, 2013

Who would you rather have as a CFO? To share — whether it’s information or credit for a success? But further along in your career curve, when it’s time to step up into a leadership position, you’re going to need these qualities in spades. Leadership' What would they be? To be able to listen?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Old and Obsolete Infrastructure: Azeotrope, an aerospace firm in the Southeast, realized they were compromised when a number of clients complained of receiving invoices from Azeotrope that contained confidential information about their client’s orders and projects. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? An excerpt is below.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely. Listening is an art – shutting your mouth (and mind) to focus your full attention to those who are giving you critical information.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2014

Whether you are entering, re-entering or transitioning in the world of business or, just want to get ahead, consider specific ways to achieve leadership distinction through nuances. Name and address information required. The qualities of a true leader revolve around hallmarks of respect and consideration. Book value is not guaranteed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

CMOs and CFOs don't always see eye-to-eye. An article published in CFO.com indicates that in one study, more CMOs report sharing marketing information with their CFOs than CFOs reported receiving. In your preliminary discussions with the CFO, establish clear definitions, success criteria, and formulas.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

The former CFO did not go quietly. Meanwhile, the CEO and new CFO had to raise capital and revenues to make up for the shortfall, which the disgruntled former CFO blamed on everyone else. Do inform your allies early and often. He rallied friends who sent emails to prominent customers about his grievance.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Unfortunately, with the focus on profit, solution placement, timelines, and commissions, the potential for true servant-leadership has been overlooked. Because it’s based on information push, and ignores the underlying values that people must match before they are willing to buy anything. The result? And that’s an average.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Take Jim, a front-runner CFO candidate for a leading medical device manufacturer on the verge of an IPO. Each executive assessment includes detailed career and educational histories; performance appraisals; and information on patterns of behavior, decisions, and business results.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. How well are those efforts reported to your investors? Why the interest?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

After all, what company on earth enjoyed greater access to more insights more quickly from more people searching for more information? Google, of course, is hardly the only digital juggernaut supersaturated in an embarrassment of informational riches. That's the essence of the Big Data business case.

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