N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

For example, A successful CFO is likely to have such MAPs (Motivation and Attitudinal patterns) as — strong motivation toward procedures over options; a preference for solving problems over focus on goals; and a high past time orientation that drives focus on traditions, past experience and benchmarks.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

We all know that CFOs are accountable for the financial stewardship of the enterprise. They fulfill this role by delegating responsibility and establishing control systems such as budgets, directives, audits, and oversight to drive fiscal compliance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2018

Before you hire someone solely as a way to shrink your own task-list, ask if you may be better served by delegating some tasks to other team members, offering them new mountains to climb. Hiring a new person is an opportunity to do something differently than before — to innovate. This isn’t leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

The best executives understand which ones they need to focus on and which ones they can delegate. While the obvious decisions that CEOs need to get right involve strategy and competitive advantage, too many executives delegate away three critical decisions that they need to own: decisions about goals, resource allocation, and people.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

“I’m not sure when I first asked if I thought it would be successful,” said Hickox, now CFO of Independent Bank in McKinney Texas. If I find it competes with my work, I will cancel, delegate or move work around,” Rowe said. “I learned I needed to speak up. ” None of this is easy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Learn to delegate once and for all. Managers who advance in their careers primarily by excelling at operational work go on doing operational work long after they could delegate those duties to other people.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

” Immelt elevated marketing and digital media when he promoted Beth Comstock to vice chair, while other positions, including that of the CFO, are at the senior vice president level. The key lesson from GE is that transforming a company for the digital age cannot be delegated, outsourced, or done piecemeal. Cut layers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

As one financial services CFO told us, “Our mental models were so rigid that even how we thought about data itself needed to be challenged. But in order for their companies to fully exploit them, CEOs must step up; they cannot abdicate leadership or delegate responsibility. The race for competitive advantage can still be won.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

But thriving as a working parent involves unlearning this trait — and delegating and finding shortcuts whenever possible. The baby’s got the flu, the employee hasn’t slept in three days, and the annual department budget is due to the CFO’s office.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

But according to Dina Dublon, former CFO at JPMorgan Chase and currently HBS professor of management practice, the empowerment and deployment of embedded risk managers was part of formal risk management at the bank well before the financial crisis. Risk management cannot be a fully-delegated responsibility.". But was it?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In their company, the COO, CFO, and HR director make decisions about compensation together and typically grant raises only at year-end review time. He could see right away that Sheryl was indeed underpaid. But Phil felt he had a strong argument for giving Sheryl a raise off-cycle. The COO was supportive and helped him convince the others.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

And he did not delegate the responsibility and accountability on the topic to a particular person or department, nor ask a woman to lead the charge. At the corporate level, the group CFO is a woman. He did not, at the outset, set numerical targets and quotas. Women head two of Nestle's five global Strategic Business Units.

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