Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

I F PEOPLE NOT COMPANIES, generate value, why isn’t talent at the center of every company’s strategy? This is a group that consists of the CEO, the CFO, and the CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer). Together, they “lead the way on anything where the deployment of talent influences the company’s results.”

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

To determine if this is the best route for your company, you’ll need to understand the different types of executive search firms and why you should retain one. Meeting your team — by utilizing a personal approach, you’ll meet one-on-one with those handling the recruitment process. Wondering if you should use a recruiter?

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. Joel recaps: “Have you developed your personal brand?

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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. The Administrator manages process with predictability and efficiency.

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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. Start sharing.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

The accounting field offers space for professional development. If you work in the field long enough, you can go from a staff accountant to an executive position such as a CFO. Chief Financial Officer (CFO). CFO is one of the end goal positions for all accountants. JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN ACCOUNTING CAREER. Bookkeeper.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

He has observed in many companies that a C-suite team represents a balance of types , for instance, an introverted CEO who chooses an extroverted CFO to bring strengths to the table that he or she doesn’t have. “On On the senior leadership team, you need thoughtful analysis and you need passion and excitement,” adds Moore.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Power skills are long-lasting, transferable across a number of work environments and roles, and can developed. Process automation professionals. Business development. Software and app developers. Business development is the only job description based on power skills. Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO).

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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. He told me she was smart, very hardworking, and had been with the company in various accounting roles for the past 4 years, most recently as comptroller.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

You started a company. 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. When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 7, 2014

Below is a story from a company I consulted & coached the management team. Using a combination of Talent Pool Development + Mastering Organizational Complexity. . He was liked by the companies customers and vendors, and they were happy to have him visit and treat them to golf and dinners. Photo Credit.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 17, 2012

I was asked by a CFO of a hospital, who attended a talk I gave on ‘ Working & Managing Across Generations ’ to contact the hospitals HR director and Workforce Education director. BUT the CFO would not be on the call. Me, “Thank you for taking your time today did CFO give you any idea into why he wanted us to talk?”.

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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?" Jim is the former CLO of three major companies. Here are some of our thoughts on how to make leadership succession a more relevant process in your company.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

I coined the terms in the 1980s to describe elements of a change management process I developed (Buying Facilitation®) that coaches buyers through their behind-the-scenes change issues they must handle before they can buy – a consulting process to help them get their ducks in a row. How Do We Buy? meet with BDT.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Date Hired.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC).

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

An enterprise business model was developed that takes in all the processes across all the business areas. Processes are categorized by a Business Cycle (end to end business process) which are “owned&# by a majority of non-financial senior leaders. The CFO owns a couple.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The Case Study Below is true, the company and names have been changed. These results can be replicated using the Exponent Leadership Process …To make your team and leaders better Contact Mike. _. Jackson had to develop a skill in being heard. Situation. I was contacted by a COO of a mid-size manufacturing plant. Resolution.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t. Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit.

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The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

As I argued in the last post , if you want the company to do the right thing, make sure you have a set of numbers to back it up. The Cambridge dictionary online defines a revenue forecast as “a calculation of the amount of money that a company will receive from sales during a particular period.”. I cringed when I heard the story.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The CFO will care about profits. The CFO might be interested but would wonder how profitable those sales will be. This process is about making it easy for your stakeholder to say “yes” to your pitch. He’s the managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a leadership development training firm. Army as a combat arms officer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Do you have a process improvement program under way that you feel is going well? Lest you get too comfortable, you might want to consider the cautionary tale of a company whose program received rave reviews while in progress, only to fail spectacularly. Two years after that, the CEO was gone and the reengineering program was defunct.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Most companies see investor relations as a one-way street. Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters. Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images. This time it was to investors that Oka looked.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck helps readers get back to basics—explaining that we’re in business to make a profit (which can help us do good things). Miki Saxon of MAPping Company Success contributed 56 Words That Will Change Your Life.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Since then, as the composition of top executive teams has changed, responsibility for leading strategy development has been shared by more members of the C-suite. The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. There are two reasons for this.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Establishing a personal brand carries even more weight when you’re responsible for developing and leading others. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." Kristi Daeda ​"I help individuals and companies make the most of talent.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There was even a dot in Samoa—a long way from the company’s Berlin office. Its founder, Hans Faust, couldn’t afford to hire developers at the outset, so he’d enlisted volunteers to help design, build, test, and debug the new kind of online game he wanted to bring to the world. We have real developers,” Klaus said sharply.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

As the business environment becomes increasingly complex and interconnected, few leaders express confidence in their companies' ability to adapt. They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Take Allianz, a German financial services company.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Ask any career-oriented woman about her top work-related concerns, and she will likely rank having access to high-quality jobs at desirable companies and having equitable opportunities to advance within those organizations at the top of the list. Take a quick scan of the managers and company leaders.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

Thought leader Sharon Drew Morgen has uncovered what keeps organizations from moving forward and in her new book, Dirty Little Secrets , she reveals what potential buyers need to know to expedite the process of bringing positive change to their companies. As a result, I had nothing to do but grow my company. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our experience, companies that adopt this marketing analytics approach can unlock 10–20 percent of their marketing budget to either reinvest in marketing or return to the bottom line. And at another — a consumer packaged goods company — a series of strong brands had evolved in separate silos.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Decision facilitation” enables a smoother, faster process that leads to a better outcome for both the marketing manager and the design firm. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. He had not been exposed to the approach his company chose ("Lean"), and all the tools and concepts were new to him. "We Getting the CFO on board is key. Then I became an advocate.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2018

The recruitment, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding of even one new employee is a time-intensive process every manager takes seriously. Instead, the new employee needs a discrete role — and path for development — of their own. ” It’s easy to want to make this kind of hire — a carbon copy of yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias. Take, for example, the hiring process. In 2016 Anton Hanebrink , Intuit’s Chief Corporate Strategy and Development Officer, took over a high-performing team known for its contributions to the direction of the company.

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