HR Digest

MAY 2, 2024

The individuals manage the critical functioning of a majority of Google’s services, which makes it all the more unexpected to see the company choose to let them go. Earlier this year, CFO Ruth Porat announced layoffs at Google’s finance department and restructuring efforts there as they moved to keep up with the shifting tech world.

Trends 59

Trends Decentralization CFO Bureaucracy 59

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

One of the hottest themes in management and leadership today is the importance of understanding the introvert at work. The research I’ve done shows that about 25 to 30 percent of CEOs are introverts,” explains Karl Moore, associate professor of strategy and organization at Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.

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CFO Education Diversity Reference 277

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

Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

I recently spoke with the CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing company about his new CFO who was poised to attend our flagship program for senior executives, Leadership at the Peak. She was respected by colleagues and employees, and over time had become the right-hand assistant to the CFO. How to Increase Your Executive Presence.

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Charisma CFO CEO Execution 65

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Guest Post By: Rania Stewart, senior product manager with Peoplefluent.com. 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.

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Career Company Software Handbook 247

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Low performers in management roles contribute to attrition among high performers. However, according to Eagle Hill’s survey, among companies with high turnover rates, 26% of high performers leave because of poor management. Sanders recommends training if the employee lacks the necessary skill(s).

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Charan Attrition Morale Survey 257

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 17, 2012

I was asked by a CFO of a hospital, who attended a talk I gave on ‘ Working & Managing Across Generations ’ to contact the hospitals HR director and Workforce Education director. BUT the CFO would not be on the call. Me, “Thank you for taking your time today did CFO give you any idea into why he wanted us to talk?”.

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CFO Workshop Conference Learning-by-Doing 103

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 7, 2014

Working for a manager who is at the same or lower level of competence as you is anger producing, uninspiring, unproductive, frustrating, demoralizing and eventually leads to underemployment. Below is a story from a company I consulted & coached the management team. Mark was the General Manager of sales. Photo Credit.

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Charisma COO CFO Executive Coaching 129

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. started by asking: What do you want the people in sales and the project managers to do? asked ‘Who is doing what you want them to do?’ + How did you manage to make that happen?

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Cooper Succession Finance Resistance 139

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. Where there is disagreement there is an inherent potential for growth and development.

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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 313

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year.

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Press Release Discount PR Directory 113

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. million times. Non-profit CEOs.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal. Develop Your Own Advisory Board Post by Jane K. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Press Release CEO Discount PR 124

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

I have learned over the years to make meetings meaningful and productive, but it has become a developed skill over time. If you learn to plan, structure, and participate in meetings effectively, you will be able improve your own time management and productivity as well as that of other participants.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Being a Manager is tough and being accountable for the work as well as the behavior of a subordinate adds another layer of complexity onto your challenges. The COO Nikhil recently promoted Jackson from Production Manager to General Manager of Production. Get Nikhil to stop “over-managing” him in the Executive Meetings.

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Case Study COO Metrics Objective 147

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. Satisfy the motive and you will manage the behavior. Effective managers are typically more oriented toward details, as are functions like quality control and accounting. Its companion pattern is Depth – ie.,,

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Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The CFO will care about profits. The CFO might be interested but would wonder how profitable those sales will be. He’s the managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a leadership development training firm. I’m making a pitch for entering the Italian and German markets no matter who my stakeholder is.

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Metrics CFO Chief Financial Officer Marketing 50

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 ! There are many reasons we decided to partner with Zenger Folkman.

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White Paper Drucker Leadership Development CFO 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

If you can't find 'em, you better keep 'em and train 'em, say three McKinsey consultants writing in their firm's eponymous quarterly. You'll be grooming more complete managers and exposing your talent to a broader array of opportunities. Facebook Flop Won't Scare Off Growth-Company Listings (CFO). What to do?

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Development McKinsey CFO Competitive Advantage 14

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. Senior management encouraged the employee’s creativity and coached her on how to implement her idea.

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Development Mentor COO CFO 8

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. How talent management is changing.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

Every day, business people face critical buying decisions – from new software to revamped website design to employee training programs. Decision facilitation” enables a smoother, faster process that leads to a better outcome for both the marketing manager and the design firm. The result? The results were instant, and dramatic.

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Case Study Technology Resistance Project 50

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. The second phase was to attract and develop more local and international people.

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Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. It starts with employees who have been trained in the science of service.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets : Why buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell and what you can do about it by Sharon Drew Morgen Every day, business people face critical buying decisions – from new software to revamped website design to employee training programs. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®.

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

In the The Capitalists Dilemma, Clay Christensen and Derek van Bever suggest that leaders have been trained and socialized to their role as capitalists, and thus come to rely too heavily on familiar and traditional finance principles. Human resources Leadership Talent management'

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Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

In his late twenties, “James” was hired in a strategy and business development role inside a multibillion-dollar marketing and communications business. billion education and training business. Eight months after being hired, he was offered the CFO position, leapfrogging the controller who hired him. Make a Big Leap.

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CEO CFO P&L Career 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. Don't get me wrong.

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Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

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. Zabeen Hirji, CHRO at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), grew up in retail banking and operations management roles before moving into HR.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 10

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.”

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite. However, the core skills they need are different.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

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. Get people aboard through short duration training programs. Cut layers.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Today, as the power of data and analytics profoundly alters the business landscape, companies once again may need more top-management muscle.

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Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

These pieces of advice have helped “move the numbers” as part of broad-scale corporate retention programs I’ve developed. Invest significant time in training and mentoring a junior colleague so they can run the budget meetings without you. Manage the village. Work differently.

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Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 14