Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

So, for instance, if you want a top finance job it's not enough to be the best CFO in the U.S.; you have to be the best CFO in the world. They need to be open to different experiences, attuned to cultural differences, and comfortable working with a highly diverse and globally dispersed employee and customer base.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

As one CFO told me, the phrase "IT Risk" contains two dirty words. Agility : Changing business processes with acceptable cost and speed. For example, ask yourself: do your security people think about agility risks? They consider agility as well as access risks. Why don''t IT people share your love of accuracy and agility?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2015

Distefano : [Conversely] agility – lifelong learners with a high tolerance for risk – that’s kind of a universal attribute. ” Over time, our findings were that of, say, CFO candidates, everyone can add, everyone knows the regulations and tax code and so on, but there’s two places that go awry.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck helps readers get back to basics—explaining that we’re in business to make a profit (which can help us do good things). Russ White and Jay Anderson of Development Dimensions International (DDI) shared Agile Ready Leaders Get Their Start in Kindergarten.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve begun to view this as the ability to hold two specific traits in balance: consistency and agility. On the other side of the spectrum, great leaders are agile. But just as consistency can become rigidity, agility can become a lack of focus when it isn’t tempered by consistency. Are you an agile visionary?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Some point to politics in the C-Suite, especially to competition between the COO and CFO. If the COO launched a large, cross-functional improvement program, the CFO would underfund it. Just about everyone in the company agrees the culture is dysfunctional, with various layers to the problems. They blocked each other's progress.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This was exactly the kind of agility and customer responsiveness she was trying to encourage. The next day, back in Istanbul, Sena met with Ahmet Ozan, the company’s CFO. That’s the agile way to do it.” He didn’t know if he was allowed to do that.” ” “He is,” Sena replied.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

Todd decided he wanted to be not only an expert, competent leader, but also a strategic, agile learner. He also saw how Sheila, his CFO, was going to be a critical expert for the group in a year where costs and budgets were coming to the forefront. She was great at giving to others but did not do as well with receiving support.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. Please don’t let that cloud your judgment as CFO. ” “As the CFO, I can’t lose sight of what’s going on in each country.” ” Henning Weighs In.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Employees and other constituents should expect HR to hold leaders accountable for fiduciary and strategic risks, just as a CFO would be expected to hold leaders accountable for a risky pattern of using corporate funds or resources. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Any CFO will look at multiple ways to reinvest financial capital. Until employers are able to help people strengthen agility and passion, we will continue to have a discovery gap and fall prey to the efficiency trap. How many companies have cut themselves to growth without sustaining at least an equal dose of innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Mastering digital requires leaders to be agile amid disruption. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. Similar to the advance of “standardized process” in the early 20th century, digital is not just the new product to offer our customers (e.g.,

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