HR Digest

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

announced that its chief financial officer Josh Smiley had resigned over his involvement with an employee in the firm. Anat Ashkenazi, previously senior vice president, controller and chief financial officer of Lilly Research Laboratories, has been named as his successor and will now be the next CFO.

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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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HR Digest

MARCH 11, 2020

We know this is a very unsettling time for everyone,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in an internal email. Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in an email, “Every Google office is affected in some way. Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, has advised company employees in various global offices to work from home as a precaution.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Chief Financial Officer. You need a numbers guy to navigate your company to financial success. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements. You as the Leader and CEO. Your best sales team will find energy from your enthusiasm and creativity.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

However, my view is that stemming the tide of talent defections is within relatively easy reach for we mere mortal CEOs, so long as our organisations’ values, HR policies and management styles are calibrated in the […]. Leaders might feel superhuman powers are needed to retain their employees in 2022, as The Great Resignation rages on.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

On many boards the CEO is also the Chairperson. As Tony Fadell, founder/CEO of Nest and the co-inventor of the iPod and iPhone says, “Straight Talk is filled with real, raw and fact-based ‘rules of the road’ that you need to know when diving into our ultra-competitive startup world. Also, you should appoint a lead director.

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Venture Capitalist Chief Financial Officer Committee Diversity 140

HR Digest

AUGUST 12, 2020

She said she was fired by CEO Ben Silbermann when she protested against her treatment. Brougher has also cited the chief financial officer of the company, Todd Morgenfeld, as being disrespectful, aggressive, and confrontational. The CEO treated the matter as trivial and degenerated it into a gender issue.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 15, 2024

In today’s volatile markets and global environment, businesses must be able to react quickly to both opportunities and challenges. Therefore, maintaining positive cash flow is more critical than ever before. It’s important to recognize the many points at which cash flow can be impeded, and implement better practices.

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Process Magazine Management Globalization 118

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2012

Note: this might be a good time to ask for any support or involvement in your program – see 10 Ways to Involve Leaders in Leadership Development Programs and What Does “CEO Commitment” to Leadership Development Really Mean? These are the big kahunas at the corporate office making decisions about how much to cut your training budget.

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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. First, the roles (or needs) of those previous searches may have been significantly different from yours.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2016

At the time we launched my second business, Sigma Communications, and its flagship magazine, The National Register of Commercial Real Estate , the biggest issue facing chief financial officers and real estate executives was their surplus real estate. Capital was extremely scarce, and interest rates were extraordinarily high.

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 18, 2023

One of my coaching clients is an entrepreneur whose business looks great on paper. In year 2–3, she had made a whopping 83% profit. Everything seemed to be going perfectly. Yet, when we took what I call a “strategic pause” to review her goals, I noted that personally, she wasn’t doing great.

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CEO Insider

JULY 30, 2023

“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology, not the other way around.” – Steve Jobs How very true and seemingly evident Steve Job’s observation is.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 14, 2023

When I was an architecture student in Delft over 20 years ago and working at my first job, I remember the moment I started using AutoCAD. It was like switching on a light. Although the 2D software had been around since 1982, most of the drafting was still being done by hand. Soon, computer-aided design […].

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CEO Insider

APRIL 24, 2023

China has leapt ahead of the US in the race to global domination. Many statistics support this conclusion, but four Latin American countries offer very recent, specific examples. They serve as harbingers and also as warnings that the US needs to change its policies.

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CEO Insider

JULY 28, 2022

Research shows that narcissists tend to be attracted to leadership positions as they are positions of power, so they need to learn how to balance selfishness with selflessness. Narcissistic leaders’ self-centered personalities not only disrupt organizational culture, but they can also derail an organization and leave it unviable.

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Tips Magazine Team Positioning 118

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. CEO acumen on business-in-society issues is thus imperative in addressing fundamental corporate issues, from business strategy to compliance to ethical standards to risk management.

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 14, 2022

What is the halo effect? How can it affect people? How much is it likely to distort reality? There are many questions arising on this, perhaps, too little considered phenomenon. Knowledge is one of the most important characteristics that allows us to understand the surrounding environments, our needs and much more.

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 9, 2022

In reference to this, does anyone who has access to a computer or a reasonably recent mobile device really yearn for the “good old days?” Can most visualize making decisions on what to sell, who to sell stuff to and how best to do that without being immersed entirely in the wonderful world of research? […]. The post SOPHISTICATED RESEARCH?

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CEO Insider

JUNE 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated transformation within the event space. While disruptive, this change isn’t necessarily negative. In fact, the transition from in-person to virtual and hybrid events has increased the reach, impact, and measurability of your events. This increase, however, requires a larger support team.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 6, 2022

Some social and business commentators and experts refer to our current time as the ‘age of entitlement’. Entitlement has always been present in our workforce–to some degree. Social norms have changed dramatically over the past few decades.

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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. They also live and breathe by nuance. 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.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Global businesses have had a lot to deal with over the past year – forcing an increase in remote work, super-scrutinized business spending, and even the inclusion of cleaning products as approved employee expenses.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 26, 2023

As an investor, I see a lot of business plans and hear hundreds of great pitches. Contrary to what Shark Tank implies, investment decisions aren’t made in just a few minutes.

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Company Magazine Entrepreneur Planning 58

CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

For many organizations, it’s worth considering shelving that prepackaged CRM product in favor of a purpose-built solution.

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CEO Insider

MAY 25, 2022

Ready to see the 5 hints on how to answer a particular question in your job interview? Let’s have a look Understanding the basics People want to see your passion for the particular job and make sure you have fully understood what this job is all about. For that reason, when they post the job […].

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 14, 2022

‘Tis the season for reflection – a time to learn, grow and appreciate all that’s good in this one precious life of ours. As I look back on the past year, it’s easy to point out where I could have done more, how I could have done better, or whether I served the people I […].

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The technology sector experienced unprecedented growth in 2020 and 2021, but this year has proven that growth was inevitably going to slow. Global recession is looming, and governments are doing everything they can to support local businesses. But cross-border e-commerce growth is still possible with the right tools and mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

He went on to become the president and CEO of Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC and recently published a memoir, Healing Children: A Surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine. How has your experience as a surgeon affected your decision making as a CEO? For me, it was to pace myself.

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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. Compliance.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 5, 2022

Everyone who knows me, knows I reject ‘The Great Resignation’ – it’s a million-dollar catch-phrase, but it’s quite dangerously misleading. This is not a great resignation – which suggests that people have made a sudden decision to do something dramatic that we didn’t see coming. Most of the labour market movement we have seen in […].

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Magazine Marketing Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

We conducted a study specifically focusing on whether the cultural values that CEOs inherit from their parents and grandparents affect their decision-making and their firms’ performance. bank CEOs who were born in the U.S., bank CEOs who were born in the U.S., The CEOs in our sample led 441 publicly-listed U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. The CEO ended up getting rid of the head of strategy, continuing to use the CIO to provide him with strategic advice, and hiring a strong but relatively junior analyst to provide support to the senior team.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

In one recent case, the chief financial officer of a small company was fired for possible expense account violations, and he was also seen as a poor strategist and weak team player. The task for everyone else is not to let them. This has become a favorite management insight as I advise bosses and boards.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Sunil Mittal, founder and CEO of Bharti Airtel, the fourth largest telecom company in the world, began his work life doing the grunt work of sales and distribution as he tried to make a living selling crankshafts to bicycle manufacturers in Ludhiana, India. Improvising and working on very tight margins is second nature.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Ghosn was recently arrested for financial misconduct, fired from his position as Nissan’s board chairman, and criticized by Nissan’s Japanese CEO for accumulating too much power. His discretion undermined the connection between company performance and CEO pay that investors want to see.

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