article thumbnail

Why Everyone's Working So Hard

Marshall Goldsmith

They enjoyed incredible job security, great benefits, lifetime health care, and guaranteed pensions. Recently, in a conversation with the CFO of a blue chip company, I observed an example of the impact of this increased compensation. Professionals and managers were working 35 to 40 hours per week. Those days are gone!

article thumbnail

Cooperation and Outward Spiraling Success Loops

Mike Cardus

The cooperation loop is a mindset of working to find cooperation …any size large and small and develop practice of building from that cooperation. The finance team in a Health Care Company. We know the Resistance Loop. For that loop to exist the Cooperation Loop must also exist. Sounds great BUT that will never work here.

Cooper 139
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Making the Turn: 10 Warning Signs You aren’t Shifting from Founder to Leader

N2Growth Blog

When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. In addition to driving business results you are making time to ensure each team and each individual are doing their own work of personal and professional development. Make the turn.

article thumbnail

Who’s Better at Strategy: CFOs or CSOs?

Harvard Business Review

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.

article thumbnail

Shifting Finance from Controlling to Improving

Harvard Business Review

As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. Getting the CFO on board is key. CFO Tim Olson of ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, went through a similar conversion. Then I became an advocate. Now I know that.".

Finance 10
article thumbnail

Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas. One area so far relatively untouched is change management.

article thumbnail

When Investors Want to Know How You Treat People

Harvard Business Review

Australia’s main CFO forum, the G100 , has shown interest in the topic and even published a paper offering broad support for integrated reporting, arguing that “corporate reporting reform is underway and CFOs should seize the opportunity to drive the reporting agenda.”