In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip. The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO. After all, I had come up through the marketing ranks. CEOs must watch for that. Leadership.

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CEO CFO Human Resources Real Estate 162

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Innovation involves trying out new things, making improvements, and seeing what works in the market. Many CEOs, the top leaders of companies, often focus on short-term goals because that’s how they’re rewarded in their jobs. They should serve as better internal monitors to make sure CEOs are doing the right thing.”

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CEO Insider

MARCH 2, 2022

Marketing people not only wear many hats, have unique skill sets, and are creatives by nature. Talking to marketing professionals is like knowing the technical jargon of coders or the medical terminology of physicians. However, most businesses don’t know the lingo of marketing. They also live and breathe by nuance.

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Marketing Magazine Creativity Skills 98

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Developing The CEO Within You. What are the market forces at work – are they playing fair or are they slowly (and possibly illegally) undermining your position.

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CEO Development Licensing Motivation 238

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. As Craig’s CFO and CAO, I always appreciated this leadership style. Build great teams In the early dark days as CFO of Footlocker, we had a struggling company that was deeply in debt.

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CFO Leadership Ethics Long-term 169

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Vrio Corp has been committed to following market trends and increasing its value proposition through transformation: investing in technology and content aligned with the consumers’ habits, emphasizing the next generation. Daniel Roldán Chiffoleau is the Chief Transformation Officer at DirecTV Latin America (Vrio Corp.),

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO. Now I must admit that my Nabob Foods and Jacobs Suchard alumni would be the first to tell you that marketing occupied that prime piece of bone real estate. CEOs must watch for that.

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CEO CFO Human Resources Real Estate 116

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

A recent conversation with a community bank CEO focused on his vision for the company. But every numeric result – product development, marketing, sales, manufacturing, and distribution – reflects human behavior.

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P&L ROE Metrics CFO 220

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

This fantastic news has deservedly boosted the stock market, and lots of companies are shifting to retract planned staff and budget cuts. James asked the CEO to approve the purchase of the equipment and its immediate rollout, instead of waiting another year, as first planned. COVID-19 and the Attentional Bias.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Rob Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance. He has published extensively on the successful leadership traits of CEOs of mid-market companies.

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CFO Wilde Drucker Magazine 95

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At N2Growth, we iteratively source and stay in the market until a finalist candidate is found. C-Suite: CAO, COO, CFO, CTO, etc. Maintaining an open dialogue with your search partner all year long allows the firm to go to market quickly when required. in 2022 alone. Senior Vice President.

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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

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Rob Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance. He has published extensively on the successful leadership traits of CEOs of mid-market companies.

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CFO Wilde Drucker Magazine 85

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

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 18, 2022

This bureaucracy is compounded by the lack of uniform reporting structure, with some reporting to the CEO, others to the CFO, and others again the chief strategy officer. This is a marked difference from traditional VC firms, which can act extremely quickly once investment decisions are made.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. If your CFO is doing something financially shady, SOX says that he is either doing it with you or to you.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 15, 2011

Q: Do you have any specific suggestions for marketing executives in this challenging climate? During hard times companies often cut back on marketing budgets. As business becomes more competitive, marketing executives face increasing pressure to demonstrate the value that their function is adding to the firm. A: Great question.

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Advice Execution Marketing Prahalad 107

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. Andrea Jung is the first woman and the first Asian to hold a seat on Apple’s board.Â

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Press Release CEO Discount PR 124

Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In Practice: A CEO convinced that remote work hampers productivity may only acknowledge studies supporting this view, while ignoring evidence to the contrary. In Practice: A CFO might confidently project revenue figures while neglecting market uncertainties and potential disruptions.

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Groupthink CFO Uncertainty Consensus 56

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. So, with the help of WordPress analytics and content judgment, here’s my list of the top ’CEO Afterlife’ blogs of 2011. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link]. Is There a CEO Afterlife?

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CEO Insider

JUNE 6, 2023

During my CEO Group workshops, I often ask the members to pair off and thumb-wrestle one another. I tell them that the CEO who gets the most pins in thirty seconds will win a fictional $100,000. After thirty seconds, I asked each pair who got the most pins.

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Magazine Workshop CEO Chief Financial Officer 105

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. With some of these other jobs, you can leave behind the workload and take some time out. Let’s flip over to the bright side of the coin: It’s rewarding.

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Entrepreneur CFO Maturity Long-term 150

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. There are things that only the CEO can do. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. Others do not. What’s the differentiator? It’ll be okay.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 203

HR Digest

AUGUST 29, 2020

During Accenture’s June 25 financial analyst conference call CEO Julie Sweet stated: “As I’ve said before, we’ve recognized some real areas of efficiencies and so there are of course headcount implications to it, which is what you’re calling lay-offs.”

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Attrition Crisis CFO Long-term 52

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. They will believe what they want to believe regardless of what they hear or what they observe.

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 401

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? Or the CEO who shares her password with her husband and children so they can access her mail and messaging accounts.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 101

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A number of them have brought me back to work with them again as they move to their next level like from CFO to COO or, in another example, several times over the years as the leader moved from VP to SVP to business unit president to, finally, CEO of his company. There would not be an Eblin Group without her.

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Development Long-term Workshop Learning-by-Doing 241

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers need to provide direction for how a product should be built, and through your understanding of the market, give them assurance they are building the right product. Marketing: When most people hear the word ‘marketing,’ the duties of PR and marcom are how they usually interpret it.

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Productivity Products Management Leadership 182

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

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

He was President, CFO, General Counsel, and the second largest shareholder of PDS Tech prior to its purchase by AKKA Technologies. Previous roles include attorney and marketing executive for Union Pacific Railroad, associate and then partner at Jenner & Block in Chicago, and chairman and CEO of an internet company.

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Open-book CFO Learning-by-Doing Audience 103

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 7, 2014

As the sales continued to drop and production pushed back Mark’s inability to keep control and adjust to the changes in the market became more and more apparent. Consulting and examining this with the company CEO, CFO, COO and Sr. with no regard to the customers need or desire for the work, this resulted in production problems.

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Charisma COO CFO Executive Coaching 129

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

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

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

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

According to Autumn Manning, CEO of YouEarnedIt, an employee engagement firm. “So Lars Sudmann, former CFO of Procter & Gamble Belgium, TEDx presenter, leadership and board advisor, and executive coach, believes that companies should provide consistent feedback to all of their employees. “If So, what does that look like?

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Charan Attrition Morale Survey 229

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

Put it this way: just because an agency placed a technical Project Manager at a software company doesn’t mean they can find the right Chief Financial Officer or Director of Marketing in the same industry. In many cases, placements by function or title are a better predictor of recruiter’s ability to understand your needs than by industry.

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Execution Chief Financial Officer Industry Strategy 213

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

That’s largely the ethos behind accelerators such as Entrepreneur First, who back exceptional people and help them turn their intellect into marketable products and successful businesses. Who would be CEO? Who would be CFO or COO? ” Entrepreneurial team formation.

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Team Entrepreneur COO CFO 86