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Leaders Must Put Character At The Center Of Everything They Do

Eric Jacobson

How you show up, what you stand for, and what actions you take to that end—as an individual and as a leader in your organization—are now gating factors to lasting success,” explains Frank Calderoni in his new book, UPSTANDING: How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth.

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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

How do you prepare for what you don’t know because it is changing so fast? If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO). Marti Konstant . She started as a high school Spanish teacher.

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How to deal with cyber-attacks: publicly or privately?

Strategy Driven

Private companies, by contrast, are less aware and agile in terms of prevention and response; protecting their brand, for example, or proactively communicating with clients. Even more advantageous, public companies now have hard-won practice mitigating the financial risks and ramifications resulting from disclosure.

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Making the Turn: 10 Warning Signs You aren’t Shifting from Founder to Leader

N2Growth Blog

If people still need to come to you for instructions on how to do something, that’s a sign that you need a clearly stated process so that anyone designated to handle a task can handle that task. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. As you scale you will need leaders everywhere who are agile and adaptable. Here’s an example.

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How to Have the IT Risk Conversation

Harvard Business Review

Surprisingly, many people say it was "how to have the IT risk conversation.". 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? What''s going on?

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How One CMO Revamped Her Role

Harvard Business Review

At one point, the CEO indicated that he would know that the right shift had occurred when the CFO, chief strategy officer, and other C-level leaders were seeking the CMO’s advice on strategic business problems. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making.

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January 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Here’s how effective leaders approach gratitude in tough situations.” David Dye of Trailblaze submitted How to Lead When Everything Goes Crazy. Jill shares, “At year-end leaders often think about how to thank their teams. Susan Mazza of Random Acts of Leadership provided How to Find a Mentor.