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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology.

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Let’s Stop Pushing “Development” as a Cheap Replacement for Training

Great Leadership By Dan

The company was harvesting its mature and declining business in order to pump cash into its growth bets. This company had a proud tradition of investing in the development of its employees. A new CFO came on board and decided that training was a luxury that could no longer be afforded.

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The Unexpected Realities of Being an Entrepreneur

Lead Change Blog

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. It is an opportunity to create and be innovative.

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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. As startups grow, leaders build and mature a HR/People strategy that is informed by and aligned with the overall business strategy. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. You’re not managing your energy well. Make the turn.

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How to Get on the Shortlist for the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both.

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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business Review

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. They’re often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. Development matters. Leadership & Developing People Book.

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Why New Leaders Should Be Wary of Quick Wins

Harvard Business Review

No matter how sophisticated and mature the new leader may be, rushing too quickly toward early wins can deprive the new leader of the insight needed to understand the culture and build relationships. Instead, he was told that the CEO would stay until the CFO developed the capabilities to succeed him, and Greg would be allowed to resign.