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Even When Women Ask for a Raise, They Don’t Ask for Enough

Harvard Business Review

Margot, my client, was offered a “great” job as the CFO of a fledgling unit within her company. In her landmark study published in 2003, Linda Babcock found that women don’t get ahead at work because they don’t step up and ask for money and promotions. She did the CFO role well for a few months. My first thought?

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. Because they distance themselves from IT, CEOs don''t grasp its subtleties.

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Where Have All the Process Owners Gone?

Harvard Business Review

Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% The wishes of a functional head such as CFO, CMO, or company President won out over a Process Owner of Order-to-Cash. And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

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