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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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Because no one is managing the store. The day-to-day financial activity within the organization is then executed by management and staff, who shoulder the responsibility — delegated to them by the enterprise as part of their job — to account for funds, both incoming and outgoing. Back to the Future.

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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. We’ve just finalized a Strategic Partnership with Zenger Folkman ( www.zengerfolkman.com ).

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White Paper Drucker Leadership Development CFO 56

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

And if you need your manager to approve your vacation request, you could write REQUEST – Vacation. If you’re a project manager who requires responses to your weekly implementation report from several people, type ACTION – Weekly Implementation Report. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

.” Pandas look innocent, but their powerful jaws deliver a bite stronger than a jaguars’ Pandas can be painfully costly to individuals whose careers stall for reasons unbeknownst to them and to organizations and managers unable to develop talented leaders to their full potential.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets offers dozens of examples to clarify precisely how buying decisions can be facilitated through the right kind of questions, including an in-depth case study of a marketing manager who recognizes the need for a better website and wants to bring in an external design team. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In light of this, an employee is evaluated not based on what she contributed to the company’s bottom line, but whether she identified a new, breakthrough idea. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. Investors are paying more attention to ideas and options than to earnings.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. Many major companies, such as Southwest Airlines, UPS, Chick-fil-A, Best Buy, Yum!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. It was Noelle’s third scheduled meeting to review financials, and again she was alone in a conference room waiting for people to show up. ” Doug spoke up.

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Case Study CFO Bottom-up Operations 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. The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow.

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Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2015

How tools are changing the way we manage, learn, and get things done. At the bottom it’s critical, but it’s a lot less so at the top. ” 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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our experience, companies that adopt this marketing analytics approach can unlock 10–20 percent of their marketing budget to either reinvest in marketing or return to the bottom line. CMOs need to start building this relationship by having a clear understanding of what CFOs expect.

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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. After they hung up, Lance was still thinking about the idea of letting Ahmed and Damon go.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. And billionaire Mark Cuban worked until 2 am launching his first business and didn’t take a vacation for seven years. “But weren’t sure how.” “We kept trying.

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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. The brilliant decision-makers look at the runway ahead. We are shifting our center of gravity.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. Then it wasn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

They put up almost no capital and usually lower their day-to-day energy costs. I spoke with Owens Corning execs, catching up after working with them a number of years ago, to understand how they did it. They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Fast forward to 2016, and almost all of RedBalloon’s brand advertising was invested in traditional media outlets like radio, print, billboards, and pop-up retail stores. As a result, the conversion rate from Facebook campaigns managed by Albert increased by 750% in Albert’s first year of operation.

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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. IT management Leadership Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

” Hands shot up immediately, with responses like “Watch less TV!” ” and “Work on my time management!” And how can we take the bull by the horns rather than waiting for our managers or organizations to do it for us? ” and “Improve my karate form!” You and Your Team.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. How Employee Engagement Hits the Bottom Line Harvard Business Review, November 2012. Ten Steps to Build Real Start-up Team Engagement Forbes, featuring Louder than Words, May 2011. Employee Engagement in Tough Times Management Issues, October 2009.

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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. With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I spoke up. “We As CFO, A.J. Doom and Gloom.

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Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Henry Beyer walked up to a Mini Cooper in the city parking lot across the street from his office in downtown Houston. It looks like someone left something behind," his colleague Tony Cummins said, reaching into the back and picking up a pair of socks. One was a Prius, the other a Nissan pick-up truck. "We''ll A Third Opinion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Aubrey Merrin, the store manager, met him at the door. "Mr. Aubrey had transferred from the Coe's up in Flowing Wells, where he'd been the store manager for 10 years. He pointed up at the celebratory banner that still hung in the front of the store. Stan Windham walked into the newest Coe's store in South Tucson.

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Case Study Marketing Real Estate Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

We manage numbers because it's easier. We focus on stuff that matters, surely, but we are doing the thing of managing the measurable, rather than the meaningful. Management experts, marketplace results, and thorough research all proves that people are central to what we produce today and how well we can produce results.

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