N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. Maybe your CFO is a family friend.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 243

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. End-to-end ownership is another way that Sudmann says companies can develop a high-performance culture. “If So, what does that look like?

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Charan Attrition Morale Survey 257

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. Middle-market businesses often assume they’ll be overlooked by attackers, whether due to a large number of similar companies, or a lack of enticing assets.

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

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. This is an important point for all business leaders, but in my experience, I believe marketers are particularly prone to what I call “smart syndrome.”

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Increased Differentiation in Compensation Many studies and reports have highlighted the huge compensation increases of CEOs relative to the average salaries of the general population of employee. Recently, in a conversation with the CFO of a blue chip company, I observed an example of the impact of this increased compensation.

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Health Care CFO Competitive Advantage Outsourcing 132

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Date Hired.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC).

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. These disasters have affected popular attitudes toward our entire system of free market capitalism. Their fatal lack of humility damaged the public’s trust in business leaders in general.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

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

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

US News and World Report – One of America’s 25 Best Leaders. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Establishing a personal brand carries even more weight when you’re responsible for developing and leading others. But even if you don’t have a team of direct reports, we are all leaders who come from different walks of life with varied experiences that shape our core values. ​ ​1.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

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

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

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

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets offers dozens of examples to clarify precisely how buying decisions can be facilitated through the right kind of questions, including an in-depth case study of a marketing manager who recognizes the need for a better website and wants to bring in an external design team. The result? The results were instant, and dramatic.

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Case Study Technology Resistance Project 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets offers dozens of examples to clarify precisely how buying decisions can be facilitated through the right kind of questions, including an in-depth case study of a marketing manager who recognizes the need for a better website and wants to bring in an external design team. The result?

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

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

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How well are those efforts reported to your investors? That may be changing as “enhanced” or “integrated” reporting gains momentum across the globe. Japan’s Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry published The Ito Review in 2014 which points to integrated reporting as a way to combat “short-termism.”

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

In the traditional view of executive coaching, an executive, with her boss’s participation , takes personality assessments, receives 360-degree feedback , and creates and implements a development plan designed to address performance gaps, optimize her contribution, and prepare her for new responsibilities. Redesign the org chart.

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360-Degree Feedback Execution Real Estate Executive Coaching 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. Where should the CAO report? That isn’t good.

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Company COO Information Technology CFO 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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

” When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. Where should the CAO report? That isn’t good.

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Company COO CFO Analysis 8

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

JUNE 25, 2015

This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You have the charm, charisma, enthusiasm, hard work, and marketing mind to encourage and drive your teams to think anything is possible. The CE is responsible for developing new business models and value propositions for the company’s future growth. You persevere.

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Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

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Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

They held about 40 meetings with companies that had bought renewable energy and with big project developers. They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. Well over half the respondents reported that three or more corporate functions were “key decision makers.”

Energy 8

Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

And yet most business schools and leadership development programs still focus on those. They learn that organizational failures result from rigid reporting lines, “one right way” problem-solving, cultures that shoot – or specify unreasonable standards for – the messenger, and restrictive communications protocols.

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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. It was the first time a vice chair would be based in an emerging market.

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P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But today, acquiring and interpreting customer data inherently must involve both the marketing and IT departments. In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO).

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 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

AUGUST 4, 2015

A new Conference Board study, as CFO magazine reported , reveals some startling growth in greener products at a dozen big companies like Kimberly-Clark, Dow, GE, Siemens, Toshiba, and more. Anytime the giants of an industry really start competing and collaborating on sustainability, it’s a very good development.

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

I call this phenomenon “executive brownout” and the details of El-Erian’s departure (not to mention more recent reporting on the conduct of his co-CIO Bill Gross, who has also since resigned) only confirmed my opinion that he was very likely suffering from it. Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm.

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CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

If a company wanted to use astrology to pick a Scorpio instead of a Libra as the new CFO, there wouldn’t be any legal risks to doing so (as long as there wasn’t any correlation between astrological sign and candidates’ membership in “protected” classes of people). Reduce the risk of cheating. Test the tests.

Pre-Employment Screening 8

Pre-Employment Screening Human Resources How To CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

If a company wanted to use astrology to pick a Scorpio instead of a Libra as the new CFO, there wouldn''t be any legal risks to doing so (as long as there wasn''t any correlation between astrological sign and candidates'' membership in "protected" classes of people). Reduce the risk of cheating. Share test results with candidates.

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Pre-Employment Screening Human Resources How To CFO 8