HR Digest

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

announced that its chief financial officer Josh Smiley had resigned over his involvement with an employee in the firm. Anat Ashkenazi, previously senior vice president, controller and chief financial officer of Lilly Research Laboratories, has been named as his successor and will now be the next CFO.

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

Managers are the people that lead a team, give instruction, and see that an organization’s goals are achieved, be it production, branding, or more. In Organizational parlance, there are four types of managers, the c-suite executives, the mid-level, the frontline managers, and the team leaders. Team Leaders.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

Comfortably demonstrating the skill, character and emotional IQ required for successfully leading your team. Keenly aware that while your title makes you manager, only your team makes you leader. You need them to operate as a great team, not functionaries. But you are missing an opportunity to add strength to your leadership.

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HR Digest

MARCH 11, 2020

Google had already suggested to employees to work from home as far as possible in some offices and restricted entries to all external visitors from coming into some of its offices in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in an email, “Every Google office is affected in some way.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 12, 2020

Ironically, even though Pinterest markets itself to women as a source of lifestyle inspiration, the company leadership team is male-dominated, and gender-biased attitudes are prevalent,” the lawsuit says. She was also asked to tell her team that she was leaving on her own.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

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. First, the roles (or needs) of those previous searches may have been significantly different from yours.

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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.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

Brian Paradis was the Chief Financial Officer for Florida Hospital when he was tasked with leading the troubled organization in 2006. Once you commit to the principle of love, a high hurdle presents itself when leaning into authenticity in your leadership. Leadership is hard work. Your ego must be managed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. When you ask leaders how they build a strong management team, the answers are revealing. When you ask leaders how they build a strong management team, the answers are revealing. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. Don't get me wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

And when everyday crankiness is exacerbated by performance problems, then the merely grumpy can become disgruntled former employees out to do damage to the team. In one recent case, the chief financial officer of a small company was fired for possible expense account violations, and he was also seen as a poor strategist and weak team player.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

The really complex patients require a team, not just the physician and the physician specialists, but also the nurses, the social workers, the child life specialists. Now, when a kid comes in for a procedure or a visit, the team will have been educated about autism. I knew I had to get a top chief financial officer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Leadership & Developing People Book. Examples of great from/to statements include: From an individual contributor who adds value through technical expertise and closely follows others’ directions, to a people leader who creates a clear strategy and delivers results through a small team. Further Reading. Marc Effron.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Six top-team tasks. The possibility of failure is high when companies don’t commit senior leadership. Putting leadership capacity where it’s needed.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The task was daunting, but we had an amazing team. My boss, the Chief Financial Officer, set lofty goals. However, a record of successes quickly built the organization’s confidence in our team. Therefore, I should have invested more of the team’s effort in a back-out plan.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The general counsel is now a core member of the top management team and offers advice not just on law and related matters but helps shape discussion and debate about business issues. From the company point of view, building up a first-class inside team has two striking benefits. In these, financial incentives are aligned (i.e.,

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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. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

We replicated our analysis for the Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) of each bank and other members of the top management team, but we did not find a relationship between their cultural heritage and firm performance. This confirmed the role of the CEO as the most important decision-maker in a bank.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead leadership development for LinkedIn. Ritz Carlton and Zappos follow a similar model.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

At the start of my leadership development programs, I ask people for examples of "negotiating with yourself." Meet your inner negotiation team. To help people develop in their leadership and in their lives, I honed in on a small set of those hundreds of faces. The Big Four are: The Chief Executive Officer: your inner Dreamer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

An effective CEO makes things happen principally through his executive colleagues, aptly called “Chiefs” too: the CFO, CCO, and COO. Of course, given that these team members are Chiefs as well, they also should not be doing too much, either. Leadership' Managing “Atmospherics” in Decision Making.

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