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Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Developing Leaders

Next Level Blog

A number of them have brought me back to work with them again as they move to their next level like from CFO to COO or, in another example, several times over the years as the leader moved from VP to SVP to business unit president to, finally, CEO of his company. Strong relationships depend on trust.

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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year. However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4%

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AIG's Hank Greenberg Won't Let Go

Harvard Business Review

What Greenberg hasn't been since 2005, though, is CEO of the company he ran for 37 years. Anything they spot is reported directly, in writing, to Greenberg and a few other executives, including CFO Howard Smith. True, AIG FP was already deep into the business of insuring subprime mortgage deals in 2005.

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Five Questions Companies Should Ask Before Making an Innovation-Driven Acquisition

Harvard Business Review

In 2005, News Corp was lauded for its $850 million purchase of MySpace — later sold off for peanuts. There were many problems with Sprint's 2005 $36 billion deal with Nextel. Interestingly, Dominic Caruso also came with the deal for that small biotech company, and he is now the pharma giant's CFO.

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How to Bring Apple's Overseas Cash Hoard Home

Harvard Business Review

I listened in this morning as Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer explained what they're planning to do with Apple's $98 billion in cash (pay a $2.65 quarterly dividend and buy back a lot of shares). Which isn't what the citizens of the U.S. (or or the shareholders of Apple) really want, is it? corporations. or whatever.

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The Best Retailers Combine Bricks and Clicks

Harvard Business Review

As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “ “We’re frankly scratching our heads.” B2B commerce, for example, didn’t move mainly online by 2005 as many had predicted in 2000, nor even by 2016, but that doesn’t mean it won’t do so over the next few decades. But the gale is still blowing.

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Ideas Plus Influence

Terry Starbucker

He explains, “It becomes increasingly important to have those strategic conversations with your CFO, investor relations teams, government affairs teams, strategy and corporate development teams and all key stakeholders…” It’s particularly important to seek out perspectives from people with informal or emerging power.

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