In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. My fascination isn’t my productivity; rather, it is the source of the idea. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link]. For as long as I can remember, the person bonded to the CEO’s hip was the CFO.

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Blog Mission Statement Strategic Planning Brand 222

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

These workers leave for a variety of reasons, including limited career growth and pay. Eagle Hill reports that replacing a mid-level employee – including hiring and training costs, in addition to lost revenue and lost productivity – can add up to 150% of that employee’s salary. Feedback is an essential part of engaging employees.

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Charan Attrition Morale Survey 229

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

What are the market forces at work – are they playing fair or are they slowly (and possibly illegally) undermining your position. For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely.

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CEO Development Licensing Motivation 238

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." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Bottom line…If you can’t avoid the crazies there is still hope…I sincerely believe productive working relationships can be formed with even the most difficult people where there is a sincere desire/need to do so.

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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 292

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. If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. Seeing these connections and implications may remind you of the need to be an active learner as a leader (not a finished product). . These charts tell a more interesting and complex story.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. By giving them a visible demonstration of what you believe will transpire, you are giving them reason to hang on even during the tough times for the benefit of their career.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. Since the 70-20-10 ratio says that experiences best accelerate your development, you’ll want to understand which experiences will build your career and, more importantly, the few, most powerful experiences that can close your from/to gap. Build your map.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

First, how to do retainment, how to do recruitment in ways that are much more productive, and also to understand that sometimes losses actually come with a lot of benefits. They don’t feel that it’s part of what they’re proud of and what they are building in their professional career, what they want to do.

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

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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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

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. Consider Ann Berkley's experience when she was named Vice President of Marketing for a major division of a large consumer products company.

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Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle. Think about this, if you think about a legacy product company.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In careers and the workplace, this means that credit or blame for performance is likely to be assigned to an individual more based on his or her perceived character, personality, intentions or efforts rather than on the situation, context, opportunities or constraints within which that individual is working. There is a better way.

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Human Capital Constraint Politics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

A seasoned CFO with a sharp mind and an abrasive style, Arthur had lost his job over a disagreement with his company’s new CEO. Whether we are forced to or choose to work too much, however, a growing body of research suggests that working long hours damages our health, productivity, and families.

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Long-term Loyalty Uncertainty Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Businesses, families, and individuals are ruined in shocking fashion—“150-year-old bank and pillar of Wall Street is gone in the blink of an eye”; “Major oil company loses $90 billion in market value in three months”; “Kite surfer tries his luck in a hurricane and slams into a building.” I didn’t think the meeting was very productive.

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COO Short-term CFO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

When considering the promotion of a relatively junior executive to the position of CEO, boards can have the candidate tested and prepared by ensuring an appointment as president, CFO, or COO. A fast-track CEO succession should be the product of a deliberate strategy, not of desperation.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Professional objectives might include initiating a new product or service, building more powerful relationships, or tackling a business-critical need in the organization. The company retained its experienced executives and their deep institutional and market knowledge. Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm.

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CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

I have learned over the years to make meetings meaningful and productive, but it has become a developed skill over time. If you learn to plan, structure, and participate in meetings effectively, you will be able improve your own time management and productivity as well as that of other participants. To be completed by March 31st.’

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Some people’s careers take off, while others’ take longer — or even stall out. They do it by making bold career moves over the course of their career that catapult them to the top. We found that three types of career catapults were most common among the sprinters. John Holcroft/Getty Images.

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CEO CFO P&L Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve recently been thinking about this with regard to how leaders can be more strategic, able to effectively execute the core of their business while remaining open to trends in the market and adapting to meet them. They plan diligently and produce excellent products and experiences for clients time and time again.

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Agility Balanced Scorecard COO CFO 15

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.), However, organizations with product differentiation strategies have higher performance when the CIO reports to the CEO. focus and vision.

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CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The CEO and CFO were marching through their 112-slide presentation. Recent market updates, a technical deconstruction of various trends, then product frameworks — all in quick succession. Early on in our careers, we might speak up without concern or context. One board member sighed deeply.

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Merton Groupthink CFO Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As a growth officer in my early career with the mad men and women of McCann Ericksson , my mom could never quite grasp what I did for a living. Rather, behind every decision the average person makes to buy something — whether a product or service, your argument or an idea — is an unspoken emotional motivation.

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Belief Systems Tips Audience CFO 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Similar to the advance of “standardized process” in the early 20th century, digital is not just the new product to offer our customers (e.g., As described in Lead The Work , he had an expansive career with Shell that spanned 25 years but unlike many top leaders in the company, he had a break in service at the top of his career.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8