Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. Your CFO should be Captain America with the emotional range of a rock.

CFO 100

CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. Since 2002, Carl Harshman — Founder, Institute for Work Attitude and Motivation – has studied hundreds of business leaders’ MAPs. Decision making style. Requirements for change and variety. Dominant motivation driver. Levels of strategic and visionary thinking. And much more.

Motivation 100

Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This ongoing struggle raises an issue that is endemic in such acquisitions: In search of innovation, big companies often buy other companies whose most innovative days are almost at an end. An acquirer looking for innovation would have been likelier to try to buy Gateway, a company that is almost an after-thought now.

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Similar to what we’ve learned about creating cultures of innovation, it takes more than a handful of leaders contributing creative brilliance; it takes leaders driving the focus on and readiness for change that going digital requires.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8