Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

Before starting as CFO, I repeatedly scanned through my leadership qualities, considering how I would present myself to my new colleagues. After serving in a variety of leadership roles over the last two decades, I still have a lot to learn. In my experience, the myriad of leadership characteristics can be boiled down to the Qs.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Orientation toward innovation and creativity. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. Decision making style.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The mindset and skill set for the latter is vastly different than those that enabled your creative expression. There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. You’re not managing your energy well.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. Brand Managers inherit brands and manage existing franchises. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader [link]. In this post, I compare the ineptitude of BP against the leadership of Rudy Giuliani during a much bigger crisis.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% Tags: Catalyst Women , women in business , businesswomen , female executives , leadership , women on business No related posts, yet. which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year. Suggest a post using our contact form!

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely. This work by Rich Gee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Unported License.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

The CFO owns a couple. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I am married, have two daughters, and a dog named Edgar the Leadership Pug who exemplifies the importance of relationships to great leadership.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal. Creative Success Story of Andrea Wachner I want to share a motivational story I read on Reuters. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

If you learn to plan, structure, and participate in meetings effectively, you will be able improve your own time management and productivity as well as that of other participants. It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Uncertainty Is on the Rise (CFO). Because the global economy is so intertwined, a lack of demand in Europe is bound to affect a business’s customers,” he says in CFO. The Rules for Leading Creatives (Mercer). Creative types can be prickly bunch. IT'S EUROPE'S FAULT. NO, NOT THOSE RULES.

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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. As the CMO, I can say that a big part of trusting Gene (CFO) was that he not only demonstrated a passion for marketing, but a genuine interest in helping our department with his finance expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. How talent management is changing. In addition to leadership development programs being used to help leaders “go digital,” these programs need to reflect the new realities of the digital and democratized workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

At one point, the CEO indicated that he would know that the right shift had occurred when the CFO, chief strategy officer, and other C-level leaders were seeking the CMO’s advice on strategic business problems. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I talked about ‘advertising’ or showed creative to leaders.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These fears aren’t unfounded: managers across industries have cost targets and technology enables lower-value tasks to move from people to machines. Without rethinking work, companies will face a discovery and creativity gap. Any CFO will look at multiple ways to reinvest financial capital.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

Consumers expect consistent products; people appreciate consistent management. And the most-successful managers must change similarly as they assume additional or different responsibilities through their careers, moving from head of sales to COO or from CFO to CEO. They are diligent and possess resilience and grit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

As a consequence, quick wins may soon be undone, or they may beget new leadership problems. The result: You will have more control over the pace of your transition to new leadership responsibilities and the company’s transition to its new era. How to Slow Down in a High-Speed Job.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

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. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A new study by The Bridgespan Group, based on a survey of more than 400 nonprofit C-suite executives and dozens of interviews, surfaced this surprising finding and discussed how to address this leadership development deficit. Senior management encouraged the employee’s creativity and coached her on how to implement her idea.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Creativity? A strong organizer juggles the myriad demands and endless details of their dual role effectively with task lists on their phone; the creative thinker comes up with an unusual but happy child care arrangement that accommodates their frequent last-minute business travel. Manage the village. Resilience?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

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. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

In other words, they’re a terrific medium and mechanism for transitioning traditional managements to platform perspectives. “Build real recommendation engines fast” is my mission-critical recommendation to companies aspiring — or struggling — to creatively cross the digital divide. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Whether the questions raised are about police officers’ use of force, politicians’ use of email, or managers’ use of compensation, the answer is the same: more transparency. Consider, for example, research I and several collaborators published in Leadership Quarterly. How to wield transparency effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

” Jeff Weiss, a partner at Vantage Partners, a Boston-based consultancy specializing in corporate negotiations and relationship management, and author of the HBR Guide to Negotiating , agrees. Be creative. “Negotiation isn’t about conceding, it’s about being creative,” Weiss adds. Further Reading.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Whether or not you hold the purse strings for your team or organization, this is a tough situation for managers. Most managers do, says Dick Grote, performance management consultant and author of How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals. Managers are struggling to figure this out.” How should you respond?

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