In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. 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. For as long as I can remember, the person bonded to the CEO’s hip was the CFO.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Operational meltdowns can devour a midsized company’s cash. To use a different company example, one growing financial services firm’s new CFO learned this in 2004. The CFO couldn’t understand why. If the CFO has a realistic budget, it’s much easier for a midsized company to borrow money. Not growth, or even profits.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. We call everybody within the company a “client.”

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