Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

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. After two years, we went from being a “financially troubled” company, to being praised for our turn-around efforts.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2011

While working for a large, rapidly expanding non-profit, I was tasked with upgrading the organization’s technology. Adding to the challenge was an already understaffed technology department, supporting antiquated technology. Ultimately, I was called into the CFO’s office and asked for my resignation.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Technology 185

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Understanding that each team member has a role in the company and their personalities need to match these roles can mean the difference between failure and success. You need a numbers guy to navigate your company to financial success. Your CFO should be Captain America with the emotional range of a rock. Chief Financial Officer.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing. Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO). Marti Konstant . Let’s review the different types of skills.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Companies must depend on their chief human resources officers (CHROs) in creating corporate values necessary to achieve success. The HR is supposed to be a true partner to the CEO, just like the CFO. Predictions should also include the impact of changes in human resources at rival companies. That’s absolutely wrong.

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CEO CFO McKinsey Human Resources 63

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

And, sadly, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) reports that 60 percent of small companies are unable to sustain their business more than six months following a cyberattack. As technology has evolved over time from main frame to client server to the Internet and now the cloud, the impact of a new Tech Debt 2.0 A Stitch in Time.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 97

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Recently, in a conversation with the CFO of a blue chip company, I observed an example of the impact of this increased compensation. The CFO replied, "You are getting paid as much a partner in one of the top professional services firms. Instead, new technology has created a "24/7" mindset. from the 1960's to the 1980's.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The nature, intent, and consequences of an attack notwithstanding, the way companies have responded to breaches is closely related to their designation: public or private. Broadly speaking, public company CFOs are more likely to outsource cyber-security to third-party firms, while private CFOs tend to invest in in-house IT teams.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

In order for any change to occur – whether it’s a decision to purchase a product, or an implementation to add new technology – whatever touches the ultimate solution must buy-in to the change. In 1983, in London, I started up a body shop/recruitment company to support the ‘new’ language and ’4GL’ support technology called Focus.

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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 99

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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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

“ If you lead a company (even as a solopreneur) you must take profit into account, or else why are you in business?” ” CFO Jon Verbeck gives us a major pointer for increasing our profits, and helps leaders understand these important elements of running a department or business. Follow Chris on Twitter at @scedmonds.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership IAS 269

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Pretend you are the VP of Client Services of a $15 million company and find your current website inadequate for your growth and strategy. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department). Majority decides to use vendors to do all the work rather than in house, but need buy-in from CFO. How Do We Buy? meet with BDT.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2023

The ban would would elevate the cybersecurity conversation to the CEO, the CFO, and the board, and potentially end the practice of scapegoating CISOs when a breach happens.

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CFO CEO Training Information 15

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), in the prior year).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, stated that Jung will bring a “new dimension&# to the company’s board. It’s actually hard to believe that a progressive company like Apple has taken so long to add a woman to its board of directors. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Press Release CEO Discount PR 124

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

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Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

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. If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat.

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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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Biotechnology Groupthink CFO Stress 41

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Liz Smith – Chairman and CEO, Bloomin’ Brands (Outback, Flemings, Carrabba’s, Bonefish Grill) – one of the world’s largest casual dining companies.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting. Technology is intimidating, particularly to non-Millennials.

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CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

All of our companies are digital now – or quickly becoming that way. Yet how many millions of dollars have been spent on analytics technology, but with no parallel improvements – or even any changes – to the way decisions are made within a business? Sometimes adopting a new technology can even become an irreversible movement. “We

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Technology Metrics Budgeting CIO 8

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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Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

This area of innovation is where mobile payment companies want to play, especially in markets where such technology is less than ubiquitous. San Francisco-based Square , led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey , is among the companies looking to lead this genre. Below is an edited version of our conversation. Or using punch cards.

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CFO Loyalty Technology Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The answer involves radically reframing one of the mainstays of the C-suite — the role of the CFO. It’s no longer adequate or acceptable for CFOs to simply focus on managing the financial risks of a company. CFOs at the most risk-aware companies are applying these strategies. Partner with your CISO.

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CFO CIO Budgeting Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. high technology or pharmaceutical) that are investing in projects with uncertain long-range payoffs.

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Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Move from the plant floor to the executive suite and we’re known as a company who has brought several unique and inventive products to the industry that has improved the efficient delivery of protein products to a demanding consumer. In our thinking, what better way to do so than with funding from the State of Ohio?

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

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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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2014

Imagine combining the brilliant technological advances of today with timeless people skills, and consider the potential of future generations. Her work has also been featured in Forbes , CFO , Newsweek , CNN Everyday Money , Business Week , The Boston Business Journal , The Los Angeles Times , The Boston Globe , and The Boston Herald.

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Consultative Skills CFO Competitive Advantage 56

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." I am adept at establishing policies, procedures, and technologies to enhance efficiency, financial health, and service to organize constituents. Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

As predictive analytics becomes more commonplace, companies are grappling with how to better organize and grow their analytics teams. Today, most companies have multiple pockets of analytics professionals spread throughout the organization. Information & technology Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

This, in turn, is triggering a shift in the perceived role of the CFO — from bean counters to planters of seed corn. trillion in holdings, Fink in February sent a letter to the CEOs of all S&P 500 companies that essentially cut the Gordian knot of short-termism. Invest more of that capital in growing the company.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This ongoing struggle raises an issue that is endemic in such acquisitions: In search of innovation, big companies often buy other companies whose most innovative days are almost at an end. An acquirer looking for innovation would have been likelier to try to buy Gateway, a company that is almost an after-thought now.

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Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

If you want approval for a new project — purchasing new equipment or computer systems, applying for a patent, building a new store — chances are you need your company’s finance department on board. Everyone always wants new equipment — new computers or other hot technologies. HBR TOOLS: Return on Investment.

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