Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

Test #1 Can You Develop a Simple Plan for Your Strategy? This test begins with the ability to crystalize the issue or idea in simple terms and then create a clear, galvanizing plan to get everyone moving in the same direction. A crisis creates a rare opportunity to revisit long-standing assumptions about your organization.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Methods through which organizations can – and must – adjust the internal perceptions of leadership to ensure long-term growth in a fast-changing world. Fisher Over the past 20 years, Fisher has developed trusted relationships with a broad cross-section of global business leaders and the companies they shape.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The big shift in organizational needs and long-term reliance on digital solutions are creating demand for upskilling and reskilling across the globe. Power skills are long-lasting, transferable across a number of work environments and roles, and can developed. Business development. Software and app developers.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2015

You cannot dare do the same thing as an entrepreneur when you are still the HR manager, marketing guru, office manager, janitor, tech guy, sales staff, CFO and CEO. Moreover, there is simply nothing as good as seeing the product you’ve tirelessly developed begin to excel. The reason behind this is basically flexibility.

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Entrepreneur CFO Maturity Long-term 150

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 7, 2014

Using a combination of Talent Pool Development + Mastering Organizational Complexity. . He was a recognized salesman, as long as consumer demand was high. Consulting and examining this with the company CEO, CFO, COO and Sr. When the going gets tough…The tough default to their level of competence. Photo Credit.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sure, a disclosure is immensely beneficial in terms of buttressing industrial safeguards, national and global security, and customer protection – not to mention mitigating the longer-term repercussions of an attack – but so too can disclosure exact lasting damage on a bottom line. Fighting back.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

There seems to be a confusion about the meaning of the terms buying decision journey, buying path, buy-cycle, helping buyers buy, and buying decisions. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department). Long meeting to get consensus. Majority decides to use vendors to do all the work rather than in house, but need buy-in from CFO.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Yet companies continue to invest in skills development only to be disappointed by little or no difference in performance. They want to pay more attention to a long term, rather than short term, view. We all know people who are highly educated and/or talented, yet just get by in their work role.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Dana writes, “When you have a tough work situation, finding ways to feel gratitude and appreciation can go a long way to turning the situation around, but is it really the best strategy? Often gratitude is the last thing you feel.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

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.

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Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This comes at a significant financial and productivity cost to all organizations, as demonstrated by research in corporate settings : Onboarding an external hire can cost up to twice the departing executive’s salary, and the time it takes for an external hire to become productive is twice as long as for someone hired from within.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Establishing a personal brand carries even more weight when you’re responsible for developing and leading others. If you’re successful, your brand will leave an impact long after you’re gone. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. ​ ​1.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). CMOs need to start building this relationship by having a clear understanding of what CFOs expect.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

What’s going on there, it’s a term that’s been used for a really long time and you sort of opened the book with a discussion of that. David: It’s a counter-intuitive strategy, to be sure, in the war for talent, but it turns out, at least to me, anecdotally, for a long time it looked like that’s the winning strategy.

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

But with myriad choices for how to do so, and long lists of stakeholders to please, managers struggle with a basic question: How do we decide which projects to green-light? At UPS, management has developed what it calls a “materiality matrix” to help focus discussion and guide decisions.

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Chief Financial Officer CFO Proposal Long-term 8

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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

-based companies, I’ve spoken with hundreds of high-performing working parents, and, on the hunt for real, feasible solutions, asked the same questions again and again: What advice has been the most valuable to you over the long term as a working parent? Think long-term to stay in the game.

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Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. It’s a core part of the CFO’s work: Last year Oka personally met with 145 investors and his IR team collectively met with more than 500.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

And if you end up with a negative ROI, the project is harder to justify on financial terms. “In principle, managers should try to estimate the full cost of the marketing activity, including creative development, media spend, and customer-facing staff time.” What Are the Challenges of Calculating MROI?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

This requires total transparency in the way individuals are assessed, developed, and promoted. They have to be prepared to accept honest feedback on their development needs. In order for a company to access the best possible talent they must access the broadest possible talent pool. Mere words and policies are not sufficient.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 12, 2010

The CFO, who is the named successor for the Prez, is Ricardo’s #1 detractor. Unless Ricardo starts mending some bridges, I don’t hold much hope in his long-term prospects with the organization. No one is an island and if you think peer pressure ends in high school, think again.

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Career CFO Blog Godin 34

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Such loans have advantages for the lender: they accelerate player development and/or reduce costs by removing the salary of the loaned player from the lending club’s books. How do you get the talent you need? Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Likewise, marketing wants to clearly quantify the impact of its long-term branding efforts while finance is more focused on macro-economic drivers of marketing performance, such as interest rates, employment levels, inflation and retail sales. This has spurred re-thinks that include changes to key executive relationships.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

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 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Second, signing long-term power agreements for 15 to 20 years is hard for any company to swallow, and they often struggle with how to handle the accounting (is the contract a lease? So the PPA terms that retailers and tech companies sign have not worked for the heavy guys. Is it a liability, an asset, or something else?).

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Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

But all too often, the long lag time between recognizing the need for a new solution and actually purchasing and implementing it leads to lost sales, lost opportunities, and lost productivity. StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Dickens Jr.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

In addition to the real-world knowledge that students will derive from the cases, readers will take away research-based templates and models that they can use in developing or consulting with small businesses. Making cuts to employee perks or customer service perks is not a long-term plan for survival. magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. He built a team to develop Predix, a cloud-based platform that underlies all of GE’s industrial businesses. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2015

It’s all a matter of developing trust. In practical terms, that means not trying to stage-manage board interactions. When I took over at The Hartford, the management team took up most of our board meetings going through long slide decks. All you really need is courage and self-confidence. I got rid of that barrier.

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CEO 360-Degree Feedback Management Charisma 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

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.”

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

And while it has certainly burned many buyers of Amazon shares through the years — Amazon's stock price took a decade to get back to its 2009 peak — the long-run returns have been spectacular. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer latest ranking of long-run CEO performance in HBR , Amazon's Jeff Bezos now ranks No.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Brownout, a term also used to describe part of the life cycle of a star, is different from burnout because knowledge workers afflicted by it are not in obvious crisis. After an active partnering development process, he had shed 40 lbs and had a clear vision of how to take his performance and contribution to the next level.

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CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Noski, former CFO of Bank of America. Thompson and his colleagues have up-for- consideration several long-term Microsoft managers and a former executive, Stephen Elop, recently reacquired when Microsoft purchased much of Nokia. Their prior question here is sure to be the company’s long-term strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

That's how the vast majority of organizations still, literally, work — and until it isn't, well, they simply won't be able to compete in 21st century terms. Hence, the significance team, concerned foremost with creating and delivering benefits that matter in human terms. Hence, the wisdom group.

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Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There was even a dot in Samoa—a long way from the company’s Berlin office. Its founder, Hans Faust, couldn’t afford to hire developers at the outset, so he’d enlisted volunteers to help design, build, test, and debug the new kind of online game he wanted to bring to the world. We have real developers,” Klaus said sharply.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). To succeed long term, winning on price alone is not sufficient.

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