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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

Power skills are long-lasting, transferable across a number of work environments and roles, and can developed. Business development. Software and app developers. Business development is the only job description based on power skills. Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO). Digital marketing and strategy specialists.

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The Essential CHRO Roles Every CEO Must Support

HR Digest

Most CEOs rank HRs as the eighth most important function in their organization, according to a research by McKinsey. The HR is supposed to be a true partner to the CEO, just like the CFO. These could be by moving employee positions, recognizing hidden talents or bringing external individuals to develop capability in a new technology.

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Nice Guys Can Finish First

Marshall Goldsmith

Who would you rather have as a CFO? What if you had to prepare a resume where you couldn’t highlight the elite college you graduated from, or your five years at McKinsey, or even your title at your current job? And start developing it. That’s when the GE board wanted to know if he could behave as a CEO. Life is good.

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The Secret Button for Getting Your Ideas Approved

Strategy Driven

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. Before founding his own company, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Co.,

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Morning Advantage: My Kingdom for a Developer

Harvard Business Review

If you can't find 'em, you better keep 'em and train 'em, say three McKinsey consultants writing in their firm's eponymous quarterly. It's an "irreplaceable motivator for high-performing technology staff," McKinsey reports. Facebook Flop Won't Scare Off Growth-Company Listings (CFO). INSIDE OUT OR OUTSIDE IN?

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. HR and talent development roles with General Motors Australia.

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Who’s Better at Strategy: CFOs or CSOs?

Harvard Business Review

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.