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

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are things that only the CEO can do. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. You’re not managing your energy well. You must concentrate on managing your energy because there are so many demands on your time, that you can’t meet them all. Effective time management begins with good energy management.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 243

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. It is an opportunity to create and be innovative. With some of these other jobs, you can leave behind the workload and take some time out.

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Entrepreneur CFO Maturity Long-term 150

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 313

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. Andrew Cravenho is the CEO of CBAC Funding, an innovative invoice finance company.

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Charisma Leadership CFO Learning-by-Doing 222

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. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The perceived need to learn something new is inversely proportional to the rank of a manager. Be sure to take into account if the employee has had to switch roles multiple times, though, or make huge changes in order to accommodate different managers’ expectations. That’s really short-sighted.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Seeing these connections and implications may remind you of the need to be an active learner as a leader (not a finished product). “The perceived need to learn something new is inversely proportional to the rank of a manager. These situations can stifle typical developmental-progress trajectories. That’s really short-sighted.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

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. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

There’s no manager to select team members, much less to assign them the roles they’ll undertake. Who would be CEO? Who would be CFO or COO? The founding team of a startup obviously has various differences to teams formed in other work contexts. Assigning roles.

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Team Entrepreneur COO CFO 86

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. And sameness blocks performance and innovation.

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Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

When looking to hire a new CEO, corporate boards of directors are increasingly bypassing C-level executives and appointing less seasoned leaders. Some recent CEO appointments in these industries include Yahoo!’s Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend. Paul Raines.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

And we have figured out why: analytics forces changes on the C-suite that the CEO has to anticipate and manage, but many don’t. These forces must be understood and managed for the entire initiative to succeed. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics.

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CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

We all understand that these days it’s really not so much the number of cars or assembly line or factories that a company has, but really its ability to keep up, to be competitive, to be innovative and what gives the company its competitive edge is really the people who make it.

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s not easy for big companies to innovate. Moreover, the skills that are cherished and rewarded for achieving current results differ from those that aid in discovery and experimentation, both of which are needed to drive innovation. First they agreed to shift funding from small, incremental acquisitions to innovation.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. But what's most interesting to me isn't that The Innovator's Dilemma was on that list. Anyone familiar with Professor Christensen's work will quickly recognize the same causal mechanism at the heart of the Innovator's Dilemma: the pursuit of profit.

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Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Thirty years ago, strategy was the CEO’s job. The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. Such friction is destructive — and a huge missed opportunity, because the CFO and the strategy head are far more effective when they collaborate.

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Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. A charismatic CEO, imported from outside the industry, was making bold, expensive investments in new markets. What should they do? Take Boeing.

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CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Given the role analytics has played in reshaping industries and rewarding innovative adopters over the last two decades, it is surprising how frequently we are asked: “Does this analytics stuff really work?” We only included companies that had implemented a major analytics initiative with an innovation or similar agenda.

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CFO Competitive Advantage Budgeting CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. The old way was information management; the new way is information intelligence. The old way was cost management; the new way is driving business transformation and accelerating growth.

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CIO Innovation Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

Sebell (mark@creativerealities.com), who are managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc. a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. We often ask executives to tell us about their biggest innovation failures. The CEO and CFO responded with, "A failure to hit ROI and NPV targets."

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NPV ROI CFO Consensus 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should? This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. Introduce innovation accounting.

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Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

But this makes the still lingering CMO-CFO disconnect even more significant, as both executives are now stewards of that critical corporate data. We found that we shared a passion for finance, the stock market, innovation, and marketing (and, candidly, politics). Agree on the dashboard. If someone has data, let's look at that."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies?

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." Jacoway "I leverage my avid love of learning and mastery of online technology to facilitate career management for trend-setting professionals who strive to be dynamic and high achieving in their business."

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. The recent ups and downs of the global financial markets have placed a lot of scrutiny on CEOs, corporate boards and executive teams to deliver stakeholder value that can withstand the fluctuations. As a CEO leading a global U.S.-based

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CFO Software Engineering CEO 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Sena Aslan, the CEO of FDM Turkey, wished the drive from the Ankara airport to the bank’s largest branch were a bit longer. She also used them to scout for talent, keeping an eye out for young managers ready to move into more-senior positions and perhaps transfer to headquarters. “He hates change.” “So what?

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Case Study CEO Banking Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Managers often think about their careers in terms of winning and losing. With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. And an innovative manufacturing company offered her a job as head of “strategic partnerships.” Naturally, Sheila was upset.

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Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. The compliance-oriented risk manager of a failed U.K.

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Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk tweets that no one changed the world working 40 hours a week. Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. Dimitri Otis/Getty Images. Apple’s Tim Cook is on email before the sun rises.

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Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

CEOs are on the hunt to understand who has done what, and who has succeeded. CEOs cannot manage their silos via hub-and-spoke and expect digital expertise to be properly incorporated in key decisions. ” GE adopted its FastWorks initiative, based on lean startup principles, to cut bureaucracy around innovation.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. The benefits of the front-line driving improvements include pride of ownership that sustains the changes, less worry for managers about whether the changes will be adopted, and reduced costs for outside consultants.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Then–Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appalled : "Sergey, among your many ideas, this is the worst." (The Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk. An HBR Management Puzzle. What a pity. More >>.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Over the past 10 years, the hospital’s managers have transformed their institution from the usual, grim, human-repair shop into a bright and comforting place. Innovating for Value in Health Care. ” Design thinking has also earned the hospital a reputation as an innovator. They started with patient-first thinking.

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Health Care Airlines CFO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Better insight from customers can drive serious growth in your company, at least according to a recent study by IBM of over 1700 CEOs. A recent study (also from IBM) indicates that more than 70% of CMOs feel they are underprepared to manage the explosion of data and "lack true insight.". Put Business Needs First, Infrastructure Second.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8