Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sure, a disclosure is immensely beneficial in terms of buttressing industrial safeguards, national and global security, and customer protection – not to mention mitigating the longer-term repercussions of an attack – but so too can disclosure exact lasting damage on a bottom line. Fighting back.

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Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 75

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Posted on October 12, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment So, the Globe and Mail is doing a big feature series on why there aren’t more women heading up Canadian corporations and, worse, why other countries are scooping our (apparently meager) female executive talent. Clark… can’t you do better than that? Are you kidding me? Happy leading!

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CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2012

After so many years of successful partnering with Jack Zenger at his previous company (he headed up Zenger Miller when I was a partner in The Achieve Group), I am quite excited to be working with him and his colleagues again. He’s one of my leadership development heroes ! It’s entitled, How to Be Exceptional. million hits!

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White Paper Drucker Leadership Development CFO 56

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

It turns out that while respected for his intellect, Brian showed up as meek and understated, leaving others with a perception that he was junior and not ready to represent the firm as a partner. Complaints about communication style usually concern how one speaks up (or doesn’t) in various forums.

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Unfortunately, with the focus on profit, solution placement, timelines, and commissions, the potential for true servant-leadership has been overlooked. Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. Indeed, it’s possible to make money AND make nice. The result?

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. Ahmed accused Damon of throwing up roadblocks and using his power to undermine the sales department. “I did talk to that leadership development firm last year,” he said.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. percentage points higher than those in the bottom quartile. Is that a coincidence?

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Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. Nikon could then follow up by asking what would persuade the investor to repurchase. I assumed you had some further cost reduction up your sleeve.”

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Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2015

Distefano : Over the last number of years we’ve made numerous acquisitions in talent development and leadership development, and [that led us to] acquire more datasets and databases — almost 50 years worth of data for executive levels. At the bottom it’s critical, but it’s a lot less so at the top.

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Execution CFO Self-aware Benchmarking 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. Customers don’t expect to get bottom-of-the-barrel prices everywhere they go, but they do expect to be treated with respect. Recently I ordered some shoes from Zappos that ended up not fitting.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

When resources are allocated from the bottom up instead of from the top down, they get out of sync with what the senior team is trying to accomplish. As Keith Sherin, then GE’s CFO put it, “This is where the growth is. Decision making Leadership' The brilliant decision-makers look at the runway ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. Viewed this way, there is a bottom-up solution to the problem of America’s uninsured. America spends $3.3 Yet nearly 30 million Americans, or 10% of the population, are uninsured.

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Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” So, when his daughter began lining up child care and preparing to go back to work after a three-month leave, the two grandmothers offered to take two days a week each. “The bottom line increases when you make these changes.” ” Believing in Your Plan and Speaking up. Learning to Work Differently.

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Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Five traits came up time and again. This trait was wonderfully illustrated by a senior vice president in a telecoms company who recounted how a regulatory ruling had just wiped several millions dollars from his bottom line. His only thought was how to make up the shortfall. Insiders make their numbers. Insiders are good-humored.

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How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

How many companies have deployed internal wikis and social networks with great fanfare only to see slow take-up or a huge slow down after a few months? Even among digital natives, adoption of things like enterprise digital tools often doesn’t live up to lofty expectations. Encourage them to take a leadership role in the transformation.

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Technology Metrics Budgeting CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. Finally, the leadership team, in partnership with Booz & Company, invited people from across the system to collaborate in cost reduction.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

” Hands shot up immediately, with responses like “Watch less TV!” A self-aware and seasoned leader, he recognized that he needed to rethink his support system, as he was really feeling the pressures of continued bottom-line performance in the context of slowing revenue growth. You and Your Team. Improving Yourself.

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