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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. Your best sales team will find energy from your enthusiasm and creativity. You as the Leader and CEO.

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Build Your Team Like an Executive

Harvard Business Review

Such executives base their efforts to build team strength on the answers to two fundamental questions: Where do I need to spend my time and focus my energies? 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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The Problem with the CEO’s Job Title

Harvard Business Review

Execution, when well framed, well motivated and well prepared, is the easiest step in management: all that is left, under those conditions, is to execute what we agreed upon in our meetings. But perhaps an even more accurate title would be Chief Decision Officer as this is the task that rests most fully on the shoulders of the boss.