Great Leadership By Dan
OCTOBER 21, 2013
We just finished a “ Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager ” program this week for a large client. The audience was mostly engineers – program and project managers, the ones in charge of designing and making complex stuff. You’ll be able to hold your own in management and board meetings.
Eric Jacobson
MARCH 22, 2023
This is a powerful way to overcome systemic biases and increase diversity across your upper management ranks. Aim to have at least three women on your management team and on your board. Consider using blind resumes (which include no name, photos, or details about gender or race).
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Center for Creative Leadership
APRIL 24, 2019
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.
Next Level Blog
DECEMBER 1, 2020
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. Frankly, some of those went really well and others were just so-so.
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
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.
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
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. He’s the managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a leadership development training firm.
CO2
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
An org chart of this nature can’t and shouldn’t be shared with all audiences, of course. The perceived need to learn something new is inversely proportional to the rank of a manager. Here’s why: With succession planning, managers don’t need to hold onto key employees—sabotaging the pace of these employees’ upward trajectory.
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