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The CFO tech pivot: embracing the right solutions to steer the course

CEO Insider

License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article The CFO tech pivot: embracing the right solutions to steer the course are those of the author Anant Kale alone and not the CEOWORLD magazine.

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How “Strategically Aligned” is your Leadership Development Program?

Great Leadership By Dan

We survey our employees to find out what they want and our courses get great ratings. And yes, course ratings are important – but great ratings for learning outdated or irrelevant skills are worthless. I haven’t – but would really like to , I just wouldn’t know how to. Never – and why would I want to do that? Is that Concourse level?

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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team

Chart Your Course

Chief Financial Officer. You need a numbers guy to navigate your company to financial success. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements.

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4 Questions to Ask to Select the Best Executive Search Firm

Great Leadership By Dan

Put it this way: just because an agency placed a technical Project Manager at a software company doesn’t mean they can find the right Chief Financial Officer or Director of Marketing in the same industry. Of course, you can still get lucky and find a great candidate by following a less viable strategy.

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Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

Deming Institute

Of course, unfortunately, still today quarterly earnings guidance is a common practice. Almost 80 percent of chief financial officers at 400 of America’s largest public companies say they would sacrifice a firm’s economic value to meet the quarter’s earnings expectations.

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How the CFO and General Counsel Can Partner More Effectively

Harvard Business Review

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC). And then, of course, there are costs.

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Navigating Tradeoffs in a Dual-Career Marriage

Harvard Business Review

Last month, Patrick Pichette, Google’s 52-year-old chief financial officer, announced that he was retiring to spend more time with his family. ” Honest conversations like this help couples renew their commitment to their shared vision. Be willing to experiment.

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