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

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The Unaware CEO : These CEO’s will take any report or piece of information at face value.

Blog 417

Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

With a capable replacement on hand, managers can also be more candid with reports because they do not feel held hostage by employees who are marginally performing. While it makes sense for direct reports to be succession candidates, don’t feel obligated to go this route. Note: In the example below I haven’t fully blown out the chart.

Leadership Styles 87

Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

With a capable replacement on hand, managers can also be more candid with reports because they do not feel held hostage by employees who are marginally performing. While it makes sense for direct reports to be succession candidates, don’t feel obligated to go this route. Note: In the example below I haven’t fully blown out the chart.

Leadership Styles 78

Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

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

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

Building Personal Strength

MARCH 4, 2010

Later that week, I reported my friend to the authorities. My friend was relieved of his command, a consequence that ruined his career. Forty years later, I googled him and discovered that he’s now the CFO for a big company and a benefactor in his community. It was a hard call, one that had repercussions.

Loyalty 107

Loyalty Open-book CFO Restructuring 107

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 11

Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 11

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

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

US News and World Report – One of America’s 25 Best Leaders. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. and The Career Playbook. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year.

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

Development 13

Development McKinsey CFO Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Take Dan, an African-American man and the direct report of one of my former coaching clients, Scott. As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. He let him take the stage.

Execution 8

Execution IPO CFO Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Take Dan, an African-American man and the direct report of one of my former coaching clients, Scott. As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. He let him take the stage.

Execution 8

Execution IPO CFO Diversity 8

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. Jobs with matrix reporting relationships are not generally entry-level professional positions.

Management 8

Management CFO Human Resources Report 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

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. But they don’t ask for enough.

360-Degree Feedback 8

360-Degree Feedback CFO Career Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Here's an example*: Peter was the divisional CFO for the consumer unit of a global products company. As it turned out, Sarah worked very hard initially to support and help Peter in his new role — but after a few months concluded that she could not report to someone whom she felt was less qualified, and took a package to leave.

Management 12

Management Restructuring CFO Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

This is a boss you remember for years, one who has a lasting impact on your career. Eventually, her team built a portfolio that caught the interest of the CFO and the CEO, and soon she was meeting regularly with them. For the past two years he had led a well-regarded team of analysts who provided performance reports to business units.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CFO Performance Review Construction 8

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

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 11

Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2015

But as I learned over the course of my career, there’s a better approach with boards. The meetings themselves, aside from the CFO’s report on financials, focused on discussions of the main issues. Her report was generally positive, but it had some tough parts in it, and I decided to discuss these openly.

CEO 8

CEO 360-Degree Feedback Management Charisma 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. The baby will only have the flu for a week, and you want to be in this career you love for decades.

Stress 13

Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

There is a widely held belief that strategic decisions are made collectively by an organization’s executive team, the senior executives who report directly to the CEO. One CEO told me about a direct report who had an impeccable track record but whose monthly reporting was never clear. Insiders are good-humored.

How To 8

How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

For a company our size, with reported revenue of $24.4 the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). ” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 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

JULY 2, 2013

John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Just the Job!: Address career blemishes. Mary Beth Perdue had stiff competition when she applied for the newly created position of vice president of external reporting and analysis at Freddie Mac in 2009. "I Career planning Hiring Job search' Not their real names.

How To 9

How To Reputation Case Study Career 9

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. Nothing happened that first night. Yes, Brad had flirted. Yes, Elizabeth had flirted back. They’d had more than one drink.

Case Study 8

Case Study Conference Hotels COO 8

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

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Here is Denise’s post from her perspective as one who has led change from within organizations like Sony during her corporate career and from the outside as a consulting partner, a role she has played for the past 6 years. We’ve each taken on the topic of influence in leadership and are exchanging blog posts.

Influence 275

Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

One of your direct reports wants more money. “As awkward as it feels to you, it feels five times more so for the direct report.” Dillon once had a direct report who showed up to work in a suit and tie, much more formal than his usual attire. “Think about the individual’s career trajectory.

How To 8

How To COO Report Follow-up 8

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

External perception can be measured by awards, such as CEO Magazine “Best Companies for Leaders” and hundreds of individual leadership awards (CEO of the Year, CIO of the year, CFO of the Year, etc…). Internal perception of leadership. Internal perception can be measured in two ways.

Leadership Development 127

Leadership Development Development CIO CFO 127

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 11

Henderson Career CEO Execution 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. Please don’t let that cloud your judgment as CFO.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

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.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

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. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

She reports being pressured into a sexual relationship with a male partner, Ajit Nazre. Men’s dominance at Kleiner Perkins is evidenced by the fact that men earn five times as much as women, according to testimony by its CFO. ” The Kleiner Perkins described by Pao fits this description.

Kleiner 8

Kleiner Loyalty CFO Mentor 8