Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Welcome to the May 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Everyone knows the roles and responsibilities for a CEO, CFO and CTO but change the wording and a different picture emerges. Imagine, for example, a CEO tasked as the Chief Engagement Officer.” ” Find Eileen on Twitter at @macdarling.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Then prepare to be surprised: Your CEO, CFO, and COO may very well give different answers. Learn more at vertical elevation.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * * Ask each person on your executive team what the vision is for your company.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

This is a group that consists of the CEO, the CFO, and the CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer). Finding, recruiting, supporting and developing talent is mission-critical work in the organization. The relationship between the CFO and CHRO is vital. Driving a talent-first reorganization is the job of the CEO.

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CFO Competitive Advantage Human Resources Charan 157

Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

To develop talent, you need to become intimate with your people; to know the essence of each individual. Talent development is not an event. And no one needs to understand that more than the CEO. Developing people simply must be a priority from the top down. Elevate it to the same level as the CFO. It is a process.

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Development Charan Leadership CFO 283

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 13, 2023

According to a report by Accenture, although CEOs recognize the importance of utilizing data, technology, and people for growth, only a small percentage of large global companies are effectively utilizing these elements. Those that do have the potential to increase productivity by 11%, leading to increased profitability and revenue growth.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But more CEOs rarely understand the true position of their CHROs, let alone giving them the necessary backup to operate in the required capacity. Most CEOs rank HRs as the eighth most important function in their organization, according to a research by McKinsey. The HR is supposed to be a true partner to the CEO, just like the CFO.

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CEO CFO McKinsey Human Resources 63

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

Guest post from Bruce Hartman : The CEO of Footlocker, Matt Serra, once said to me, “It’s lonely at the top. From this leadership, we developed a culture of fact-based decision making. As Craig’s CFO and CAO, I always appreciated this leadership style. He coaxed us to explore the issue at hand and develop our own thoughts.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The updates to the Walgreens executive team were announced by CEO Tim Wentworth who also took up the position at the company quite recently, appointed in October 2023. Healthcare WBA unit joined Walgreens Boots Alliance after acting as CEO of Solera Health since 2020, moving from her role of independent board director.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Joel Peterson has been around the block serving as a leader in various roles—CEO, CFO, founder, investor, entrepreneur—and is currently the chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Develop Your Leadership Around Four Activities.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

A recent conversation with a community bank CEO focused on his vision for the company. What is getting in the way of our new business development activities?” . But every numeric result – product development, marketing, sales, manufacturing, and distribution – reflects human behavior. Which customers did we focus on?

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P&L ROE Metrics CFO 220

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

James asked the CEO to approve the purchase of the equipment and its immediate rollout, instead of waiting another year, as first planned. Nevertheless, the CEO was skeptical and proceeded with the growth plans, which led to the company being significantly disrupted when the COVID cases and its deluge of constraints struck.

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CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Over the years in his career as the global research director of Deloitte LLP’s CFO Program, Ajit Kambil has seen countless examples of executives being promoted to C-Level positions without having the tools needed to communicate their visions to their stakeholders. “As

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Execution Strategy CFO Magazine 118

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2013

Guest post by Great Leadership monthly contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: I recently had the opportunity to have a conversation with the president of a privately held company as part of research for a book I am writing on talent management and development within small to mid-size companies. Develop the stories to reveal your “why”, and….

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CFO Executive Coaching Talent Management Influence 237

Building Personal Strength

MAY 7, 2010

It was about Lanham Napier, CEO of San Antonio company Rackspace, which sells websites and web-based services. Napier himself was recently included in Forbes' "15 most powerful CEOs under 40." I wanted to know how Napier became such a successful CEO. He invested in his own development. Before long, I got my answer.

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CEO Development CFO Banking 90

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

The research I’ve done shows that about 25 to 30 percent of CEOs are introverts,” explains Karl Moore, associate professor of strategy and organization at Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. Research points out that while nearly half the population is introverted, extroverts hold the majority of leadership roles.

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CFO Education Diversity Reference 272

Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

NASDAQ: APPL ) has named Andrea Jung , CEO of Avon  (NYSE: AVP ), as the eigth member of its board of directors. Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, stated that Jung will bring a “new dimension&# to the company’s board. Develop Your Own Advisory Board Post by Jane K. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Press Release CEO Discount PR 124

Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

I recently spoke with the CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing company about his new CFO who was poised to attend our flagship program for senior executives, Leadership at the Peak. She was respected by colleagues and employees, and over time had become the right-hand assistant to the CFO. No one turned a head. I’m concerned.”.

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Charisma CFO CEO Execution 65

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Leaders at the top of the organizational pyramid need ongoing development just as much as newly promoted supervisors. One of the challenges organizations face in developing their senior executives is the need for "mass customization". In order to do this, many organizations turn to " Individual Development Plans ", or IDPs.

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Process Execution CFO CEO 227

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

C-Suite: CAO, COO, CFO, CTO, etc. We understand what it takes to identify, attract, assess, and place the world’s best leaders – and develop them throughout their professional careers. While size isn’t an indicator of success, a boutique search firm is equipped with better resources and greater hands-on experience.

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Execution CTO COO CFO 217

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

It explores: The demand for CEOs who lead with the compassion, empathy, sensitivity, and integrity needed to build strong teams in the post-Covid workplace. Fisher Over the past 20 years, Fisher has developed trusted relationships with a broad cross-section of global business leaders and the companies they shape.

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Succession Open-book Leadership Styles Leadership 74

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. There are things that only the CEO can do. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. If you’re the founder or CEO, there’s no one else at your level in the organization. How do you avoid this fate? Make the turn. It’ll be okay.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 203

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. Moreover, there is simply nothing as good as seeing the product you’ve tirelessly developed begin to excel. It is an opportunity to create and be innovative.

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Entrepreneur CFO Maturity Long-term 150

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Objectives: Develop strategic plan for 2014+. Develop, update and refine plan through 2014. CEO ‘Most Important Meeting of the Year’. CEO updates and successes of 2013. CFO $$ talk: Comparison of past to present financial Profit & Revenue. CEO State of the Industry. Teams report out what they developed.

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Strategic Planning Planning Company CFO 132

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 16, 2012

Sure, everyone – even entrepreneurs and CEOs answer to someone. I run Executive Development Programs at a large university. Develop a vision, set of 2-3 year goals, and actions plans. Having goals is a habit I developed years ago and take it with me wherever I go. Develop measures. I’m in one of those positions.

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Span of Control How To CFO Metrics 240

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2015

Usually the CEO and the CFO have the biggest impact on organization-wide changes, but it is not always so; in some cases the hierarchy doesn’t reflect the amount of influence, so it’s advisable to check everything carefully. Where should you start? First of all, you need to discover who your true stakeholders are.

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Project Succession Stakeholder Analysis Influence 150

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 7, 2014

Using a combination of Talent Pool Development + Mastering Organizational Complexity. . Consulting and examining this with the company CEO, CFO, COO and Sr. If Mark had not been so strongly supported by his staff and others, the CEO might have been able to make the necessary role change, before profit and people were lost.

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Charisma COO CFO Executive Coaching 129

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

When a CEO becomes a household name, that CEO may well need to get his own house in order. In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” That’s exactly what happened at Enron.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

The following list of suggestions is my gift to you in hope that it will allow you to outsmart those that feel they cannot be outsmarted… Define Acceptable Behavior : This first thing all CEOs need to do is to accept responsibility for any “corporate crazies&# who have taken residence in their organization.

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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 282

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 16, 2013

We apply these behavioral criteria to almost any successful person, whether it’s our CEO or our plumbing contractor. Who would you rather have as a CFO? When he was vying for the CEO job, the attributes holding him back were strictly behavioral: his brashness, his blunt language, his unwillingness to suffer fools.

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Chemicals Welch CFO CEO 133

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. This critical alliance needs and deserves much greater analysis and application.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

The leading candidate is the scheming CFO played by Frederic March, a passionless, colorless bean counter groping for power, but with no vision beyond increasing dividend payouts to stockholders. This article posted on LiveLesium offers six tips for developing this important facet of the charismatic personality—confidence.

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Charisma Leadership CFO Learning-by-Doing 222

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Increased Differentiation in Compensation Many studies and reports have highlighted the huge compensation increases of CEOs relative to the average salaries of the general population of employee. As CEOs have enjoyed massive increases in pay, other C-level officers - the next level down - have also noticed large increases in compensation.

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Health Care CFO Competitive Advantage Outsourcing 132

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Non-profit CEOs. Mark Tercek – President and CEO, Nature Conservancy – world leader in global conservation.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

One of the most common leadership development questions that I hear from executives is, "Why does succession planning feel like such a waste of time?" Many of the CEOs we talk with these days express concern about the lack of bench strength in their companies. Plans do not develop anyone.

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Planning Efficiency Succession Tips 118

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. Development Progress & Complicating Factors: In general, adding “date hired” will give you a better sense of employees’ developmental progress. Date Hired.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

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. Development Progress & Complicating Factors: In general, adding “date hired” will give you a better sense of employees’ developmental progress.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78