Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

” CFO Jon Verbeck gives us a major pointer for increasing our profits, and helps leaders understand these important elements of running a department or business. Justin Setzer of Plan to Lead provided Five Steps to Crush Your Business and Life Goals. Find Jon on Twitter at @jonverbeck1. Find Justin on Twitter at @plantolead.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2015

You cannot dare do the same thing as an entrepreneur when you are still the HR manager, marketing guru, office manager, janitor, tech guy, sales staff, CFO and CEO. That type of fulfillment is difficult to duplicate in any other career path. With some of these other jobs, you can leave behind the workload and take some time out.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted 5-Step Plan to Developing Your Personal Brand. Then it’s no surprise that you’re not moving up in your career. Implement this 5-step plan for career advancement.” Or do you focus on just one big goal?” .” Find Jim on Twitter at @72keys.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

The pressure on you to make bottom line goals is even greater than it has ever been. In the stress of making bottom line goals, you may be missing an opportunity to achieve more than you have. The CFO owns a couple. The improvement of the economy is slower than most would like. You are making do with fewer resources.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

. “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. Often these pandas live on for years, seemingly innocent, but ultimately gnaw at the career trajectory of otherwise talented leaders.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." is a leadership, career, and marketing expert and coach.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

If you approach problematic relationships from the perspective of taking the action that will help others best achieve their goals, you will find few obstacles will stand in your way with regard to resolving conflict. The Importance Factor : Don’t allow yourself to get sucked into succumbing to conflict for the sake of conflict.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. We often think we’re starting far ahead of where we objectively are and that we’ve arrived when we’re still hundreds of miles from our goal. If your goal is to be great at early-stage pharma R&D, it’s the same process. Build your map.

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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. Guest Post By: Rania Stewart, senior product manager with Peoplefluent.com.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

And there is perhaps no setting that shapes careers, salaries, and lives like annual performance evaluations. To avoid expedience bias, go beyond the data that is easiest to get, and prioritize less obvious signs of success or failure, such as a person’s ability to motivate other team members to hit their goals.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2011

My boss, the Chief Financial Officer, set lofty goals. The already overburdened technology team had no bandwidth and the CFO would not accept changing priorities of other efforts. Ultimately, I was called into the CFO’s office and asked for my resignation. I should have resigned the moment the CFO insisted on the project.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Keith Ferrazzi – Addresses behaviors that block the achievement of strategic goals. Facebook’s first HR hire, she has led global people programs, been an HR Business Partner, and CFO. and The Career Playbook. He achieved consistent growth for 16 years at Sirona.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

For example, a divisional controller may report directly to the CFO and on a dotted line to the VP of the division; which ensures that the controller knows what the "internal customer" (the VP) needs as well as what the direct boss (the CFO) wants. Career planning Managing up Organizational culture'

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

They want their teams to win this year, that is, to achieve their annual goals and objectives. What skills and expertise do I need on the team to accomplish the unit's goals and allow me to play that value-added role? When it comes to building management strength, these executives are similar to professional sports coaches.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Art summarizes, “For all of us, the need to help our firms navigate change while doing the same in our careers defines our level-up challenge.” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted The 16 Ways to Improve Your Work Performance in 2017. Business owners must not ignore the goal of making a profit.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Women begin their careers with ambitions that are just as high as their male peers , but before long they scale back their goals and shy away from competing for these jobs. For example, the CFO of a biotech company recalled that she had been considered for a CEO position.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

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. "If Ask for what you need.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

The findings show that fewer than half of analytics programs met initial return-on-investment (ROI) goals. High-achieving executives have been shaped by the pivotal experiences of their careers, yet analytics requires executives to think beyond these mental models. But poor ROI is only part of the story.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

.” The first step is to create a system that allows executives to talk candidly with their managers about what is most important to them professionally and personally and how their organizations might support these goals given their key work responsibilities. Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

As in any business, having a defined mission and clear goals enable you to set priorities, align resources, measure success, and be confident you’re on the right path. The baby’s got the flu, the employee hasn’t slept in three days, and the annual department budget is due to the CFO’s office.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Meeting Goals Effectively Are you where you want to be in your life. Assign tasks and ask if there are questions. Be the change you see in your meetings!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If you or I were the CFO of a manufacturing company, and we were in a board meeting, and the board asked, “What is your manufacture and capacity utilization?” And in each of these situations, there were young gifted leaders that had the foresight to use these new categories as rocket fuel for their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

They set goals for themselves and their employees and they achieve them. And the most-successful managers must change similarly as they assume additional or different responsibilities through their careers, moving from head of sales to COO or from CFO to CEO. Consistent leaders work hard and show up on time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. But Rogier thought it was the key to boosting engagement and performance, and he had hinted that he might use Contect’s 2017 annual all-employee meeting—his chance to announce new goals and celebrate the previous year’s accomplishments—to roll out the change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Most companies now have more gender-balanced talent pools, especially at the early-to-mid-career levels, and are looking for ways to make sure progress continues at the mid-to-upper levels. Sijbesma credits three steps: Setting a vision that connects the goal to business success. I was absolutely determined.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Research focused on the careers of 14 highly successful CIOs found that, beyond the skills needed by all C-level executives (an extensive network, emotional intelligence, leadership, etc.), Match the CIO reporting structure to the strategic goals of the organization. Why Can''t a CIO Be More Like a CFO? focus and vision.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Stybel, a career management and board adviser and an executive in residence at Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School. But your career can get sidetracked if you don’t treat people in a dignified way.” Presiding over layoffs is a “distasteful part of management that many people fear,” says Laurence J.

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