Building Personal Strength

MAY 7, 2010

My wife went straight to the Sunday (May 2, 2010) edition of the San Antonio Express-News , to see if her new article was published in the Travel section. My next-door neighbor is a manager at Rackspace, so I continued reading. He invested in his own development. In 2000 he accepted a job as CFO at start-up Rackspace.

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CEO Development CFO Banking 90

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% 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.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

I have learned over the years to make meetings meaningful and productive, but it has become a developed skill over time. If you learn to plan, structure, and participate in meetings effectively, you will be able improve your own time management and productivity as well as that of other participants.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal. Develop Your Own Advisory Board Post by Jane K. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

Successful companies establish a product management/marketing role (or group), empower them with the ability to make decisions, and hold them accountable for their actions. — The Product Management Perspective: As a product manager, do you feel responsible for the success of your company?

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Posted on October 12, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment So, the Globe and Mail is doing a big feature series on why there aren’t more women heading up Canadian corporations and, worse, why other countries are scooping our (apparently meager) female executive talent. Skip to content Home Welcome! And, that’s my rant for today.

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CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2012

Their foundation program is a strengths-based leadership development system based on their bestselling The Extraordinary Leader book. It’s a big step in our company’s growth and development. He’s one of my leadership development heroes ! There are many reasons we decided to partner with Zenger Folkman.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 12, 2010

Posted on March 12, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment There are lots of ways you can unwittingly derail your career. Why rock the apple cart and give Ricardo some coaching on better ways of managing his sideways relationships?? The CFO, who is the named successor for the Prez, is Ricardo’s #1 detractor. Happy leading!

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Career CFO Blog Godin 34

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. Million; not big, but interesting.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. economy is still in a deep funk, and for many small business owners that means business isn’t exactly booming.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

People and Organization : In late 2010, GE CEO Jeff Immelt decided to give country managers P&L responsibility for all of GE in their countries and have them report to vice chairman John Rice, who would be stationed in Hong Kong. As Keith Sherin, then GE’s CFO put it, “This is where the growth is.

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P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Research conducted by the Center for Work-Life Policy in 2010 confirms that women start out wanting the brass ring almost as badly as men do: 47% of women 30 and younger describe themselves as "very ambitious," as compared to 62% of men. Only 32% of highly qualified women over 40 describe themselves as very ambitious (compared to 46% of men).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Consider ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, which eliminated its budgeting process in 2010. According to ThedaCare's chief financial officer, Tim Olson , top management viewed it as a significant waste of time. Managers no longer have to collect 7,000 lines of budget data.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Half of the 14 billionaires on Forbes magazine's 2010 list of the world's richest self-made women are from mainland China. One manager in a multinational corporation explained why she decided against a low-paying academic career, despite scoring third in the nationwide university entrance exam for biology majors. The payoff?

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

This oft-heard defense of buybacks is clearly hollow: Once a CEO or CFO makes this claim, the company cannot sell the stock at a higher price for the benefit of the corporate treasury without signaling to traders that the stock is now over valued, something that no top executive would want to do. million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

We manage numbers because it's easier. We focus on stuff that matters, surely, but we are doing the thing of managing the measurable, rather than the meaningful. Management experts, marketplace results, and thorough research all proves that people are central to what we produce today and how well we can produce results.

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