Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

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CEO Development Licensing Motivation 236

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 13, 2017

After all, I had earned it, having just finished a 28 year run as a CPA, cable company VP of Operations, football stadium project manager, VP of Development for another cable company, and finally, a cable company SVP of Operations. An insatiable intellectual curiosity and a burning desire to make a difference.

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CPA COO CFO Leadership 192

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2015

Even the most powerful people rarely act alone. When doing this, remember a few things: Who Are Your True Stakeholders? Learning About Stakeholder Relationships. To do this you need to answer the following questions: Who do they influence, and who has impact on their decisions? Where should you start?

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Project Succession Stakeholder Analysis Influence 150

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Learn more about Rania at the end of this post. Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer.

Career 247

Career Company Software Handbook 247

Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

The leading candidate is the scheming CFO played by Frederic March, a passionless, colorless bean counter groping for power, but with no vision beyond increasing dividend payouts to stockholders. This article posted on LiveLesium offers six tips for developing this important facet of the charismatic personality—confidence.

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Charisma Leadership CFO Learning-by-Doing 222

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. How do I provide the appropriate amount of guidance to my team?” “How will I know if I am being effective?”. IQ in isolation does not indicate strong leadership potential. About the Author.

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P&L CFO Sharpe Finance 58

Building Personal Strength

MAY 7, 2010

Napier himself was recently included in Forbes' "15 most powerful CEOs under 40." He wasn't done learning. If you want to be a business nerd and go learn from the masters, that's what I got." He invested in his own development. He did what Jim Rohn once famously advised: "Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."

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CEO Development CFO Banking 90

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

A lengthy New York Times Magazine piece describes how the Obama administration put too much faith in policy and gave too little attention to politics: Most of all, [Obama] has learned that, for all his anti-Washington rhetoric, he has to play by Washington rules if he wants to win in Washington. and public opinion.”

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

I spent more time meeting and less time actually doing. I have learned over the years to make meetings meaningful and productive, but it has become a developed skill over time. Why do people call meetings that aren’t prepared? Why do people call meetings that never needed to take place?

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

 Jung has been credited with turning the once ailing Avon around and has appeared on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business for several years. She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal.

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Press Release CEO Discount PR 124

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), What do you think about the lack of women in the highest-level executive positions in large Canadian companies? found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007.

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Press Release Discount PR Directory 113

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

Self-promoting divas and power-hoarding executives destroy organizational trust. Diva-style leaders who ignore that mordant reminder of humility are unlikely to build anything that lasts longer than they do. The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things.

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Productivity Products Management Leadership 182

Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: As a product manager, do you feel responsible for the success of your company? How much effort do you exert in building relationships of trust with the people on your team? Too often we leave the worries and cares about money to the CFO’s office.

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Succession CFO Ethics Taylorism 133

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Take another example: In positions that demand skills for working in an open-source context, our hidden template of success might lead us to believe, again with no evidence, that only someone who is already part of the open-source community can do the job well. ” The Power of Additive Contribution.

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Power Management Diversity CFO 10

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In return, these 15 would ‘pay if forward’ by doing the same thing for 15 others, for free. I was inspired to do this by the many great teachers and leaders who have so generously helped me – without ever asking for anything in return. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

← Putting a SLANT on sabotage Fast Friday with David Coverdale, Whitesnake → Oh dear Mr. Clark… can’t you do better than that? Gee Mr. Clark, couldn’t you do a little better than that?? And, I had to wonder, how motivating did Colleen Johnston, CFO, TD Bank Financial Group find that comment?

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CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Uncover Effective, Expert Personal Brand Statement Examples​ What do Rand Fishkin, Charlie Puth, and Martha Stewart all have in common? While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. What type of impact do you want to make?

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

David: Who are you and what do you do? I’m a law professor at University of San Diego and I am the author of Talent Wants to be Free: Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding. This is a full transcript of LDRLB episode 0508 an interview with Orly Lobel. ORLY: I’m Orly Lobel.

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

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

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

And when everyday crankiness is exacerbated by performance problems, then the merely grumpy can become disgruntled former employees out to do damage to the team. The former CFO did not go quietly. When faced with cranky, grumpy, or disgruntled people, these Do's and Don'ts can be helpful. Don't give them power.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Cooper Learning-by-Doing 15

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 12, 2010

The CFO, who is the named successor for the Prez, is Ricardo’s #1 detractor. And especially don’t underestimate the power of your peers. So, what bridges do you need to repair today? Posted on March 12, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment There are lots of ways you can unwittingly derail your career.

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Career CFO Blog Godin 34

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Research we conducted at VitalSmarts shows that 97% of employees readily admit to having a “career-limiting habit” — some behavior that will forever hold them back, unless they can learn to change it. Consider the example of a CFO we worked with who had his heart set on landing the CEO job when his boss retired.

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CFO Motivation Incentives Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

Yan Wang, the former CFO of VitalSmarts, didn’t survive Mao’s China by taking outlandish risks such as questioning those in positions of authority. As our CFO, she did impeccable work with the highest ethical standards. She fumbled around the issue until Al said, “So what are you suggesting I do, Yan?”

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Planning CFO Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

The technology company, Alentix*, was doing well and growing annually at the rate of about 15%. The answer is deceptively simple: There is a massive difference between what we know about leadership and what we do as leaders. It''s not about knowing what to say or do. Integrate leadership development into the work itself.

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Leadership Committee CFO Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Common wisdom says that the former attend elite MBA programs, land high-powered jobs right out of school at prestigious firms, and climb the ladder straight to the top, carefully avoiding risky moves. They do it by making bold career moves over the course of their career that catapult them to the top. John Holcroft/Getty Images.

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CEO CFO P&L Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters. Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters.

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Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

But the ones who really understand the issue see gender balance as not just a numbers game but part of a broader, more strategic cultural shift that includes developing leadership teams representing geographically diffuse markets. How did he do it? The second phase was to attract and develop more local and international people.

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Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

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. “So what do we do with this info?” Clearly I’ve got to do something, though. I know that Ahmed and Damon aren’t mates, but I do expect them to be civil.”

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. Have we created collaborative, learning-focused cultures?

Ethics 9

Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

At PwC, we learned a powerful lesson in how to engage our corporate antibodies. We learned it through our experience with an internal contest — "PowerPitch" — in which we challenged everyone in the firm to submit a business brief proposing our next $100 million opportunity. How did we do it?

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Innovation CFO Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Algorithms, run on ever faster computers, can do amazing things with that information, from detecting patterns and making predictions to solving complex problems. That realization creates more anxiety than insight into what to do. Can it do so at the speed of a start-up? On both counts. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

Forces pushing in the other direction — toward hyperspeed — are powerful, of course. All of this took time, but he wanted to do everything possible to prove to the board — and to others in the company who had been passed over — that he was the right choice to be the next CEO. Control the flow.

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Supply Chain CEO Kahneman Self-aware 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

In her current job as executive vice president of global product development, she is responsible for the lineup of the future and the components that will make cars greener, safer, more user-friendly. She is a clearly a team player with the support of her peers, such as CFO Dan Ammann, promoted to president working with Barra.

Engineering 10

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

Recently, I was talking with a senior leader from a world-class global learning and development company. I asked him, “Do you also teach leaders how to be influenced by others?” We still believe that the essence of leadership is about influencing others to do what we want them to do.

Influence 8

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

You used to be able to track everything with an Excel spreadsheet, personally designed by your CFO; now you’ve got an SAP installation in its place, supported by an entire IT department. Things are spinning out of control, and you don’t know what to do. What’s going on?

Company 9

Company IPO Price Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Lawrence say they cause all kinds of "pathologies" including: "tendencies toward anarchy, "power struggles," "navel gazing, and decision strangulation.". Do they talk about themselves all the time? Do they actually act as if they do it? In their HBR article, Problems of Matrix Organizations , Stanley M. Davis and Paul R.

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Management CFO Human Resources Report 8