Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Leaders at the top of the organizational pyramid need ongoing development just as much as newly promoted supervisors. One of the challenges organizations face in developing their senior executives is the need for "mass customization". In order to do this, many organizations turn to " Individual Development Plans ", or IDPs.

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Process Execution CFO CEO 227

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The cooperation loop is a mindset of working to find cooperation …any size large and small and develop practice of building from that cooperation. We discussed who is getting expenses and reports in on time AND specifically how the finance people made that happen. On time expense reports from Sales up 23%.

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Cooper Succession Finance Resistance 139

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. 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. How do you avoid this fate? Make the turn.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 243

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 6, 2011

These results can be replicated using the Exponent Leadership Process …To make your team and leaders better Contact Mike. _. Nikhil and I sat to determine some objectives for the Leadership Coaching with Jackson, they were; To determine if Jackson has the Capability to handle the level & time-span of work that is now required of him.

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Case Study COO Metrics Objective 147

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Eagle Hill reports that replacing a mid-level employee – including hiring and training costs, in addition to lost revenue and lost productivity – can add up to 150% of that employee’s salary. He also extols the virtues of self-leadership. “A If too many such people are in critical leadership jobs, it will impact the bottom line.”

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Charan Attrition Morale Survey 257

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Development Progress & Complicating Factors: In general, adding “date hired” will give you a better sense of employees’ developmental progress.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Development Progress & Complicating Factors: In general, adding “date hired” will give you a better sense of employees’ developmental progress.

Leadership Styles 78

Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Cyber attacks spiked 164% in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period in 2016, entailing 918 disclosed breaches-according reports on broadcaster CNBC. While cybersecurity prevention could be vastly improved by greater information sharing, some surveys of CSOs indicate that only one in seven attacks are reported to authorities.

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Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 77

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The Unaware CEO : These CEO’s will take any report or piece of information at face value.

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

Only those interested in leadership as more than mere ego gratification have a chance to build something that outlasts them. The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. When a CEO becomes a household name, that CEO may well need to get his own house in order.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

We’ve each taken on the topic of influence in leadership and are exchanging blog posts. We work really hard on developing smart solutions, only to see them fail because we don’t have enough juice in the organization. Leadership is as much about learning as it is about leading – and specifically learning other perspectives.

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). US News and World Report – One of America’s 25 Best Leaders. President Dartmouth College.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2012

Their foundation program is a strengths-based leadership development system based on their bestselling The Extraordinary Leader book. It’s a big step in our company’s growth and development. He’s one of my leadership development heroes ! It’s entitled, How to Be Exceptional. million hits!

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White Paper Drucker Leadership Development CFO 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. To meet these challenges, we see three priorities for developing the next generation of leaders in the “work-disrupted” age: Mastery of Digital. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

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. Establishing a personal brand carries even more weight when you’re responsible for developing and leading others. They are all killer personal brand examples. ​ ​1.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

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. Another example of successful talent development and mentoring is Good Shepherd Services in New York.

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Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

CMOs and CFOs don't always see eye-to-eye. An article published in CFO.com indicates that in one study, more CMOs report sharing marketing information with their CFOs than CFOs reported receiving. As a result, we partnered in developing the marketing dashboard and figuring out how to measure marketing.

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CFO Advertising Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

.” Pandas look innocent, but their powerful jaws deliver a bite stronger than a jaguars’ Pandas can be painfully costly to individuals whose careers stall for reasons unbeknownst to them and to organizations and managers unable to develop talented leaders to their full potential.

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

I’m no different: I’ve spent my career helping executives succeed, either through coaching and development or assessments of their strengths and opportunity areas to identify the development work they need to do to take their careers to the next level. The leap into leadership. The organizational transition.

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Henderson Career CEO Execution 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? How well are those efforts reported to your investors? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. This is no fringe movement. The big player in the U.S.

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

One CFO I know managed finance for a spin-off firm when it went public and then returned to the parent company in a corporate position. Another CFO led finance for multiple units so he could gain a breadth of knowledge across the business before becoming the corporate CFO. CEO Chemistry.

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CFO How To CIO Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

The dispatch included disturbing and potentially illegal managerial activities, such as Fowler’s boss telling her she could be fired for reporting the behaviors. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? Earlier in her career, she left a position as SVP of business development and emerging businesses to join Boston Scientific in a senior line job. That’s precisely what we found.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 12

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Unfortunately, with the focus on profit, solution placement, timelines, and commissions, the potential for true servant-leadership has been overlooked. I’ve developed a new type of question (Facilitative Question) to help people uncover their unconscious criteria to make new decisions, or re-weight old beliefs. The result?

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

It had been a long day at the company’s Birmingham, England, headquarters, and in the early evening the two were going over the evaluations of each of Lance’s direct reports. Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. Lance sighed.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. It is time to connect these groups, elevate analytics to a strategic corporate practice, and assign executive leadership to oversee it. Where should the CAO report? Information & technology Leadership'

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Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. It is time to connect these groups, elevate analytics to a strategic corporate practice, and assign executive leadership to oversee it. Where should the CAO report? The title isn’t the important part—the role is.

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Company COO CFO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You do not work for the CEO, or alongside the CTO, CIO, and CFO.

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Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

And yet most business schools and leadership development programs still focus on those. ” The motive force behind institutional failure is leadership failure. These are different from the kind of product-safety scandals we grew accustomed to in the 20 th century. Top leaders are enabling the current failures in two ways.

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Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

People and Organization : In late 2010, GE CEO Jeff Immelt decided to give country managers P&L responsibility for all of GE in their countries and have them report to vice chairman John Rice, who would be stationed in Hong Kong. As Keith Sherin, then GE’s CFO put it, “This is where the growth is. Decision making Leadership'

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P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2015

It’s all a matter of developing trust. The meetings themselves, aside from the CFO’s report on financials, focused on discussions of the main issues. Her report was generally positive, but it had some tough parts in it, and I decided to discuss these openly. I got rid of that barrier.

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CEO 360-Degree Feedback Management Charisma 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

With so many professional fathers and mothers depending on this common wisdom, it’s no wonder workforce opt-out rates aren’t budging and so many working parents report feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. It’s as applicable for fathers as for mothers, whatever the family configuration, and regardless of roles or resources.

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Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. Over half assume leadership positions at nonprofit organizations and almost all are philanthropic. ” It took her a while to find her footing — she reports “calendar filling.” Charles McQuillan/Getty Images. It’s the people.

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 12

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.

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Supply Chain CEO Kahneman Self-aware 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

Recently, I was talking with a senior leader from a world-class global learning and development company. We were discussing his firm’s approach to teaching leadership. ” This is a fundamental gap in leadership approaches. ” He thought for a moment and replied, “No, we really don’t.”

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Influence Six Sigma Open-book Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

There were about 10 people involved — the CEO and his direct reports — and we met for two days offsite, in a hotel, so we wouldn't be distracted. Save at least an hour or two at the end of the meeting to develop communication plans to disseminate the decisions. I wrote that in a journal entry about seven years ago.

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CFO CEO Hotels Strategy 15