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Integrity – A Critical Cornerstone To Effective Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” – Dwight D. But time has not diminished the importance of integrity as a leadership trait. Click here to view the original article.

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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. Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics.

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Leading a Board of Directors

Great Leadership By Dan

You want a collegial team around you that is motivated to participate and contribute, not content to sit back and listen to your canned presentations. But you are missing an opportunity to add strength to your leadership. He’s a seasoned financial operator with extensive experience in startups and growth companies.

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Why the Entire C-Suite Needs to Use the Same Metrics for Cyber Risk

Harvard Business Review

The chief information security officer (CISO) or chief information officer (CIO) reports the technical vulnerabilities that his or her team has successfully remediated. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

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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. This allows them to create new job assignments that will motivate the staff member and build new skills and perspectives on the business.

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The Most Important Negotiation in Your Life

Harvard Business Review

At the start of my leadership development programs, I ask people for examples of "negotiating with yourself." Like actual individuals, these internal negotiators have a range of styles, motivations, and rules of engagement. The Big Four are: The Chief Executive Officer: your inner Dreamer. At first this sounds strange.

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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.