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20 Articles to Help Leaders Navigate the COVID 19 Crisis

Great Leadership By Dan

Some are new and some are older; all seem to be practical and relevant advice for leaders trying to step up during these challenging times. Crisis Management: The Overlooked Leadership Skill (CFO) 9. I’ve dug deep into Google search to curate 20 articles from what I believe to be trusted sources for leaders.

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Stop Letting the Latest Trend Dictate How You Run Your Company

Leading Blog

Then prepare to be surprised: Your CEO, CFO, and COO may very well give different answers. Maybe all they need is a mental health day or advice on a new project. So, when thinking about your employees and talent strategies, that’s where you must start: at the top. When your executives have different visions, you have a problem.

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Does The Age Of A Board Affect Company Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

However, when they looked at just the difference in how long the CEO and the CFO (the person in charge of the money) plan for the future, it didn’t seem to matter much. One reason might be that CFOs don’t often become CEOs later in their careers, so they might not have big long-term goals.

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The Seven Tests of A CEO

Leading Blog

The best leadership advice, after all, helps slow the game, so that you can better anticipate, understand, and label the nuanced dynamics of different situations in the moment and then guide them to better outcomes. So, they are worth reflecting on no matter what context you lead in.

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Advice for Marketing Executives During Tough Times

Marshall Goldsmith

For example, you don't want the CEO and CFO coming to you and saying, "You never justify why we're spending so much money, so we're cutting your budget." My newest book, MOJO , is a New York Times (advice), Wall Street Journal (business), USAToday (money) and Publisher's Weekly (non-fiction) best seller.

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Is Charisma Innate, Or Can You Learn It?

Center for Creative Leadership

I recently spoke with the CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing company about his new CFO who was poised to attend our flagship program for senior executives, Leadership at the Peak. She was respected by colleagues and employees, and over time had become the right-hand assistant to the CFO. How to Increase Your Executive Presence.

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Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO. My regret is that I did not free up my other hip for Human Resources, a group of eager young managers at the rear of the functional pecking order.

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