Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

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. They need to be tech experts, navigating your cloud contact center , social media and customer management systems.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Chief Financial Officer: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in incremental profits.”. Chief Marketing Officer: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can increase our European market share by X%.”. Army as a combat arms officer.

Metrics 50

Metrics CFO Chief Financial Officer Marketing 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Hiring, managing performance, and firing. At the start of my leadership development programs, I ask people for examples of "negotiating with yourself." To help people develop in their leadership and in their lives, I honed in on a small set of those hundreds of faces. The Chief Financial Officer: your inner Thinker.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9