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.

Career 15

Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

But even if you don’t have a team of direct reports, we are all leaders who come from different walks of life with varied experiences that shape our core values. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." ​ ​1.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

US News and World Report – One of America’s 25 Best Leaders. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

If you are sitting in a job interview and hear the words "dotted line reporting," you have just encountered the world of matrix management. Matrix reporting systems are designed to keep people working together and not at cross purposes. Are your managers aligned? It certainly worked for me. He really liked me.

Management 8

Management CFO Human Resources Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

However when this happens it often creates an awkward and uncomfortable set of dynamics, and there's no blueprint for how to manage them. Here's an example*: Peter was the divisional CFO for the consumer unit of a global products company. This required Peter to spend considerable time with Sarah talking through their concerns.

Management 12

Management Restructuring CFO Operations 12

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?” ” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier.

CFO 8

CFO How To CIO Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2015

It’s understandable that most CEOs try to manage their boards. At most companies, despite all the best intentions, managing the board usually means keeping directors at arm’s length. But as I learned over the course of my career, there’s a better approach with boards. I got rid of that barrier.

CEO 8

CEO 360-Degree Feedback Management Charisma 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 12

Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

I’m no different: I’ve spent my career helping executives succeed, either through coaching and development or assessments of their strengths and opportunity areas to identify the development work they need to do to take their careers to the next level. C-suite leaders are at the apex of their careers.

Henderson 12

Henderson Career CEO Execution 12

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

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. It's an "irreplaceable motivator for high-performing technology staff," McKinsey reports.

Development 14

Development McKinsey CFO Competitive Advantage 14

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. Match the CIO reporting structure to the strategic goals of the organization. CIOs especially need: an integrative mind.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

Margot, my client, was offered a “great” job as the CFO of a fledgling unit within her company. In the process of coaching hundreds of top female executives over the past decade, we’ve routinely interviewed hiring managers and pored-over 360-degree feedback reports in search of trends and commonalities. That’s wishy-washy.

360-Degree Feedback 8

360-Degree Feedback CFO Career Trends 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

MAY 5, 2014

This is a boss you remember for years, one who has a lasting impact on your career. Here are two quick (disguised) examples: Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known manufacturing company. Eventually, her team built a portfolio that caught the interest of the CFO and the CEO, and soon she was meeting regularly with them.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CFO Performance Review Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. The two men went way back. Vera’s Perspective.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

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 12

Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Andy O’Connell Career Ladder to Nowhere? First there''s the phenomenon of "frenetic networking-by-vague-association" in which you pretend to know people you want to be associated with, a system that creates an online "Escher staircase masquerading as a career ladder." That would only tip off the mendacious.

Review 8

Review CFO PR Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

With so many professional fathers and mothers depending on this common wisdom, it’s no wonder workforce opt-out rates aren’t budging and so many working parents report feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. Manage the village. The baby will only have the flu for a week, and you want to be in this career you love for decades.

Stress 14

Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

What could be easier than chatting with managers you already know? Too many candidates, and hiring managers, shortchange the internal interview process; they view it as a formality and think that all of the evidence is already there. John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Just the Job!: Piece of cake, right?

How To 9

How To Reputation Case Study Career 9

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?” People continue to report that work is complex, and they really don’t know what they’re supposed to do, and they don’t know what their peers are doing.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How talent management is changing. Then practice and apply new behavior back on the job while instituting routines for manager, peer and coach feedback. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

I call this phenomenon “executive brownout” and the details of El-Erian’s departure (not to mention more recent reporting on the conduct of his co-CIO Bill Gross, who has also since resigned) only confirmed my opinion that he was very likely suffering from it. Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

He was the CFO of their company, a software start-up with about 75 employees. She reported to the head of sales, who reported to the COO, and she and Brad rarely interacted at work. They managed to keep the fledgling relationship secret for three weeks. Nothing happened that first night. Yes, Brad had flirted.

Case Study 8

Case Study Conference Hotels COO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

One of your direct reports wants more money. Whether or not you hold the purse strings for your team or organization, this is a tough situation for managers. Most managers do, says Dick Grote, performance management consultant and author of How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals. He says he’s underpaid.

How To 8

How To COO Report Follow-up 8