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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business Review

Functional experiences help make you great at something, i.e. marketing, supply chain, R&D. You’ve not only been a great marketer in one region, but proven that you can lead marketing when you have a new team, in a turnaround situation and in a different geography. Request an interview. Ask for insights.

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Build Your Team Like an Executive

Harvard Business Review

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. He is active in a number of outside finance groups and similarly devotes time at their conferences to seek out and get to know finance talent outside the company.

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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

Despite its infamous financial chicanery, it still appeared to be a viable, profitable firm. At the annual conference of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners late last month, former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who served six years in prison for his part in Enron''s deceptions, offered an explanation.

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