N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. moravecglobal Here's another example of disconnected leadership and the consequences for, in this case, students, faculty and taxpayers.

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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. Where there is disagreement there is an inherent potential for growth and development.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

What shared interests can you learn about that you can combine to catalyze innovation for your organization? The CFO owns a couple. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Thanks for sharing this one.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. They are all killer personal brand examples. ​ ​1.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Communication/Leadership Style. These charts tell you where employees currently are, but not where they’ve been or where they’re going next. Potential Successors.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Knowing the communication/leadership style of your coworkers can help you better utilize their skills and contextualize their input. 4.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! 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.” David shares a better way to meet your leadership challenges.” Let’s Get Started.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And sameness blocks performance and innovation. Diversity, on the other hand, spurs innovation. In research spanning decades, Columbia professor Katherine Phillips has repeatedly found that, when tasked to innovate, teams that include diverse members and that value the contributions of all their members outperform homogenous teams.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The appointment of Mary Barra as CEO-to-be of General Motors is a signal to car-lovers everywhere that the company is serious about its products and vehicle innovation. The centrality of innovation to the future — electric cars, hybrids, self-driving cars, and beyond — makes her experience pivotal. This is a new GM.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

High-achieving executives have been shaped by the pivotal experiences of their careers, yet analytics requires executives to think beyond these mental models. Ironically, this allows them to actually gain stature as the “innovators” are discredited and C-suite power shifts back to how it was.

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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. This story had a happy ending since Tom took stock of his career, shifted to a new job in financial management, and has been extremely successful.

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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. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

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. They both wanted important, but not overwhelming careers. ” None of this is easy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

One CEO told me she was considering firing her CFO because he consistently ran his monthly financial report by the Operations VP before showing it to her and, as she realized, was letting the Operations VP unduly influence when revenues and expenses were recognized. As one CEO put it: “Too much exposure to the board leads to radiation!”

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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. These leaders are recognizing that this balance drives the innovation and market understanding they need for other key business transformations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. Chief "Innovation" Officer: Looking for disruptive technologies to drive innovation. focus and vision. focus and vision.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Similar to what we’ve learned about creating cultures of innovation, it takes more than a handful of leaders contributing creative brilliance; it takes leaders driving the focus on and readiness for change that going digital requires.

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