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10 Reasons Why Every Manager Should take a Finance Course

Great Leadership By Dan

The audience was mostly engineers – program and project managers, the ones in charge of designing and making complex stuff. Yes, you too can speak like a CFO! We just finished a “ Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager ” program this week for a large client. They will call you on it.

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How Women In Corporate Leadership Are Rewriting The Rules For Success

Eric Jacobson

Having completed more than 400 CFO and board searches, she has a deep understanding of what professional and personal experiences, as well as the personality traits, are needed at the top. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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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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Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Developing Leaders

Next Level Blog

A number of them have brought me back to work with them again as they move to their next level like from CFO to COO or, in another example, several times over the years as the leader moved from VP to SVP to business unit president to, finally, CEO of his company.

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Be Like Water: 3 Martial Arts Lessons for Negotiation

Strategy Driven

After the fantastic show, the audience poured through the exit. He was President, CFO, General Counsel, and the second largest shareholder of PDS Tech prior to its purchase by AKKA Technologies. I recall an instance where I did exactly this. He seemed to be looking at their purses. Most of all, be patient and relaxed. Be like water.

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The Secret Button for Getting Your Ideas Approved

Strategy Driven

Make Your Audience Care. At the heart of getting your pitch approved is making your audience care about it. The CFO will care about profits. The CFO might be interested but would wonder how profitable those sales will be. If you can combine that idea with a powerful rationale, you’ll get to “yes” before you know it.

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What Story Does Your Org Chat Tell?

CO2

An org chart of this nature can’t and shouldn’t be shared with all audiences, of course. Notice in the example I’ve provided below (which is organized by function) how the CEO has the COO promotion ready, and the COO has two possible candidates (both the CFO and the VP of Operations) and has chosen the VP of Operations.