N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The journey from meticulous deal-making to managing assets proficiently has put an unprecedented emphasis on acquiring and retaining the right talent. The Talent Deficit Spectrum Diving deeper, the data reveals that 48% of fund managers in private equity firms and operating partners find their organizations understaffed.

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Chief Financial Officer Management Survey Talent Management 409

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2016

At the time we launched my second business, Sigma Communications, and its flagship magazine, The National Register of Commercial Real Estate , the biggest issue facing chief financial officers and real estate executives was their surplus real estate. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Real Estate Chief Financial Officer Business Model Magazine 50

Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

Thomas Johnson and Anders Broms, the authors provide many good thoughts on the problems of accounting measures and management. At Berkshire, managers can focus on running their businesses: They are not subjected to meetings at headquarters nor financing worries nor Wall Street harassment. In Profit Beyond Measure by H.

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Short-term Long-term Deming Management 28

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Below I’ve listed a few stakeholders and corresponding Core Ideas to pitch to them regarding the European market entry: VP of Sales: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in sales.”. I’m making a pitch for entering the Italian and German markets no matter who my stakeholder is.

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Metrics CFO Chief Financial Officer Marketing 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Andrew Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron, recently completed a six-year prison sentence for his part in the scandalous deception that hid Enron's financial troubles from investors. Fastow's message, an important one for all managers and potential managers, has two key points.

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Chief Financial Officer Finance Banking Class 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Content marketing is a start, but articles and posts on social media don’t go deep enough. It’s time to flip the corporate university inside out, blending marketing with learning to create relationships beyond the transaction. P&G Professional serves the “away from home” market for commercial cleaning.

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CIO Chief Financial Officer White Paper Learning-by-Doing 8

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. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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