Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

.” As it turns out, for eighteen years Tom had received stellar performance reviews and top bonuses on the strength of his performance. “Executive presence” was mentioned in several reviews as an improvement area, but without any specifics, Tom had no idea what the real issue was and how damaging it could be to his career.

Career 15

Career CFO Sample Execution 15

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

They can be useful for you, your advisors/coaches, and board members in discussing and reviewing the readiness of your organization. Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Date Hired.

Leadership Styles 87

Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

They can be useful for you, your advisors/coaches, and board members in discussing and reviewing the readiness of your organization. Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan.

Leadership Styles 78

Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Here are the key roles that are crucial to your success as a product manager, and why they are important: Engineering/QA: The relationship with the engineering/development team is paramount for product managers. Smart product managers know the value of having allies in the CFO’s office.

Productivity 182

Productivity Products Management Leadership 182

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. They’re often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. Marc Effron.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

And there is perhaps no setting that shapes careers, salaries, and lives like annual performance evaluations. In a recent performance management summit we ran with over 100 large organizations, 57% of them said they weren’t taking any actions to address bias in performance reviews. How to address the bias.

Performance Review 11

Performance Review Review How To CFO 11

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Regular contributor to Harvard Business Review. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. million times.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

In addition to pulling out all the traditional retention stops — competitive salary, recognition, effective career coaching — the McKinsey team found several other approaches that have proven effective in keeping techies in the fold. Big Pharma's Questionable Start-Up Strategy (Technology Review). INSIDE OUT OR OUTSIDE IN?

Development 14

Development McKinsey CFO Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Managers often think about their careers in terms of winning and losing. But what about those whose careers are sidetracked or derailed when passed over for a key assignment or big promotion? Are these “losers” out of the running for career advancement, or can they regain their footing, refocus their sights, and continue to rise?

Career 10

Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 10

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Ask any career-oriented woman about her top work-related concerns, and she will likely rank having access to high-quality jobs at desirable companies and having equitable opportunities to advance within those organizations at the top of the list. Your Performance Reviews Are Frequent and Detailed.

Career 247

Career Company Software Handbook 247

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

The career question I hear most often from rising senior leaders is this: “How do I get on the C-suite shortlist?” With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. ” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss.

CFO 8

CFO How To CIO Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

If you’re a business leader looking for an opportunity to have real impact on your company — and position yourself for the top job — which career path is best? That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO?

Quinn 13

Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

In these organizational structures, you typically have two bosses: a "straight-line" direct boss, who is the person who prepares your performance review and decides on your raise; and a "dotted-line" boss, who may also assign you work but has less control over your review. Career planning Managing up Organizational culture'

Management 8

Management CFO Human Resources Report 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Research we conducted at VitalSmarts shows that 97% of employees readily admit to having a “career-limiting habit” — some behavior that will forever hold them back, unless they can learn to change it. Consider the example of a CFO we worked with who had his heart set on landing the CEO job when his boss retired.

CFO 8

CFO Motivation Incentives Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Early in my career, when sharing a vacation house with a group of friends, I learned an important lesson from a classic book by anthropologist Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger : It takes a lot of people cooperating to keep things neat, but it takes only one disgruntled dirt-monger to mess things up. The former CFO did not go quietly.

CFO 15

CFO Chief Financial Officer Cooper Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Such loans have advantages for the lender: they accelerate player development and/or reduce costs by removing the salary of the loaned player from the lending club’s books. How do you get the talent you need? Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

Yan Wang, the former CFO of VitalSmarts, didn’t survive Mao’s China by taking outlandish risks such as questioning those in positions of authority. As our CFO, she did impeccable work with the highest ethical standards. Our research shows that 97% of people can readily identify a career-limiting habit they have.

Planning 8

Planning CFO Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

If you can't answer these questions, then getting to know this leader could advance your career. And by forming a relationship with this person, you can develop that perspective too. I can name several times in my own career when my manager's immediate superior was a key factor. He encouraged me to take the course.

Public Relations 15

Public Relations Human Resources CFO Career 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For example, Tim Sheahan, Chief Financial Officer for a large division of a multi-national corporation, aspires to become CFO of a Fortune 100 company in the future. The manager of product development on the team that Ann inherited was Tom Shelton, a long-time employee who was well-liked within the company.

Execution 14

Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

No one likes review time. Timothy Butler, a senior fellow and the director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School, agrees that self-assessments aren't the best way to evaluate performance, but believes they do serve a purpose: "They're an important source of information about what happened in the past year," Butler says.

How To 10

How To Review Case Study Ryan 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

A good boss provides encouragement, development, mentoring, and support, while also being fair, constructively critical, and helpful in integrating employees into high-performing teams. This is a boss you remember for years, one who has a lasting impact on your career.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CFO Performance Review Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

Either you couldn''t develop an insider, or the external environment has shifted enough that you need someone who can come in and really drive transformational change. You actually get a bit disadvantaged if you''ve been in the same company or the same industry your whole career, as an HR person. It could be. Why the discrepancy?

CEO 9

CEO CFO COO Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

That's one reason that job rotation is more common than ever as a development tool. So, for instance, if you want a top finance job it's not enough to be the best CFO in the U.S.; you have to be the best CFO in the world. A well-rounded executive will rise to the top much more quickly than one with singular expertise.

Execution 15

Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Chinese women in powerful business positions include Wei Sun Christianson , CEO of Morgan Stanley, China ; Mei Yan , Managing Director of MTV Networks, China; and Mary Ma , former CFO of Lenovo and managing director in global equity giant TPG, who recently started her own investment fund. The payoff?

Survey 14

Survey Policies Globalization CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Focusing on additive contribution, a term we developed in a collaboration with Alix Hughes , diversity program leader at Amazon, is a powerful way to avoid sameness in a team and to foster inclusion and innovation. The lessons people learn throughout their careers are often the key to uncovering their additive contribution.

Power 11

Power Management Diversity CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

A natural time for this to be positioned is during the annual review process. For example, a Big 4 professional services firm engaged us to provide a year-long holistic executive development program focused on work excellence, health, and family success to 473 senior leaders. Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Placing the candidate on a corporate board will help him or her gain experience interacting with directors.

CEO 12

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Knowing and communicating your career goals is challenging for even the most ambitious and focused person. In today's work world, careers take numerous twists and turns and the future is often murky. You have to clarify for yourself what you aspire to do with your career before you can communicate it confidently to others.

P&L 18

P&L Committee Career Case Study 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I’m going to push more responsibility onto them, which should help them develop faster. In 2004, Hickox was a certified public accountant in Texas and at a crossroads in her career. “I’m not sure when I first asked if I thought it would be successful,” said Hickox, now CFO of Independent Bank in McKinney Texas.

Banking 15

Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. Even in the most well-oiled CEO succession processes, one piece is almost always missing: preparing the current CEO for the next phase in his or her career. We studied the post-CEO careers of 50 Chief Executives in the Fortune 500, and interviewed 13 of them.

Simon 13

Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

These pieces of advice have helped “move the numbers” as part of broad-scale corporate retention programs I’ve developed. Make friends in the business development team so that you know about the big local client projects coming up and can volunteer for them early (no business travel!). Work differently.

Stress 15

Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

In her current job as executive vice president of global product development, she is responsible for the lineup of the future and the components that will make cars greener, safer, more user-friendly. Barra began her career at the old GM as a young student engineer. This is a new GM. She knows the people side as the former head of HR.

Engineering 11

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

In today’s resource-constrained environment, many of us are delivering 120% on the current demands of our job—but devoting little time to developing ourselves further or positioning ourselves for a future move. If you’re ambitious but your job offers you limited opportunities for exploration and growth, what can you do to develop new skills?

Porter 10

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

An interview with the board of directors is standard for the CEO, CFO, and nonprofit Executive Director hiring processes, but the group interview approach is becoming more common for many other positions. Career planning Communication Job search'

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence Reference CFO Workshop 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2015

But as I learned over the course of my career, there’s a better approach with boards. It’s all a matter of developing trust. The meetings themselves, aside from the CFO’s report on financials, focused on discussions of the main issues. I got rid of that barrier. A CEO’s job is hard enough.

CEO 8

CEO 360-Degree Feedback Management Charisma 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

His father demanded absolute commitment to the business, forcing his son to be “all in” and to follow the career path set down for him in early adolescence. ” His identity as a family member undermined his professional growth and effectiveness as CFO. Recognize the value of financial independence.

CFO 8

CFO Retail Follow-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). Our group welcomes the competition. Exceed client expectations.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8