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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our work with clients across dozens of sectors over more than five years, we have found that the strongest CMO/CFO partnerships develop when both parties undertake five actions: 1. CMOs need to start building this relationship by having a clear understanding of what CFOs expect.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

One CFO I know managed finance for a spin-off firm when it went public and then returned to the parent company in a corporate position. Another CFO led finance for multiple units so he could gain a breadth of knowledge across the business before becoming the corporate CFO. State your ambition.

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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. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." For further help developing your career, check out my book, Why Career Advice Sucks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

We genuinely believe we are gathering relevant information that will help us decide objectively whether the person is a good fit for the job. In 2016 Anton Hanebrink , Intuit’s Chief Corporate Strategy and Development Officer, took over a high-performing team known for its contributions to the direction of the company.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Sharon Drew explores what happens when he stumbles in the dark trying to bring his fellow managers, the internal tech team (which is responsible for the current site), and the CFO (to whom the tech team reports) on board. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Set objectives and size. Having clear objectives helps prioritize the group’s efforts and also measure success. The primary objectives in creating our team were to rein in spending on external strategy firms and to attract, train, and retain top talent in the company. Our group welcomes the competition.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Personal objectives might range from the sublime (adopting a child, writing a book, reconnecting with a disenfranchised family member, starting a non-profit) to the prosaic (running a 10K, coaching a child’s soccer team, volunteering as a mentor.) Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm. Yes, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Significantly, he converted to a new religion in his early 20s despite his father’s vociferous objections. As one of our clients, the gifted CFO of a large manufacturing company, said when he quit the business, “I can’t continue going through life always being the younger brother.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

They want their teams to win this year, that is, to achieve their annual goals and objectives. For example, Tim Sheahan, Chief Financial Officer for a large division of a multi-national corporation, aspires to become CFO of a Fortune 100 company in the future. For confidentiality purposes, all names in this post have been changed.).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

As one CFO told me, the phrase "IT Risk" contains two dirty words. From a business standpoint, IT risks affect four key objectives: Availability : Keeping business processes running, and recovering from failures within acceptable timeframes. Surprisingly, many people say it was "how to have the IT risk conversation.".

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

Take charge of your own development. Jennifer relished her identity as a caring leader and strong developer of talent. What were the roles that others could play, and which ones were especially critical for each leader’s goals and objectives for the year? You and Your Team. Improving Yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

Timothy Butler, a senior fellow and the director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School, agrees that self-assessments aren't the best way to evaluate performance, but believes they do serve a purpose: "They're an important source of information about what happened in the past year," Butler says. "If Ask for what you need.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. There are five steps to incorporating these network effects into your business (which we call PIVOT ): Purpose : Define the shared objective that everyone in your community or ecosystem will contribute to and benefit from. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There are three very common shiny objects that derail customer success efforts in the early stage: Process improvements to issue routing, issue classification, and automated responses seem reasonable. Scaling up comes with CFO and board pressure to gain efficiency, and the natural tendency of a business will be to squeeze customer teams.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Employees and other constituents should expect HR to hold leaders accountable for fiduciary and strategic risks, just as a CFO would be expected to hold leaders accountable for a risky pattern of using corporate funds or resources. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Between the inner and outer doors of Circale Corporation's headquarters building, human resources VP Nils Ekdahl crossed paths with CFO Anita Fierst as he was leaving for lunch. "We It had been designed to ensure the objectivity of decisions about post-merger personnel cuts. The CFO was right: Milanese was indeed a perfectionist.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

When they attack an idea, it's because they perceive that idea to be a foreign object trying to harm the stability of the organization. For example, we sought the Office of General Counsel's help in developing terms and conditions for the contest. We collaborated with our CFO to think through the budget and prize strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

People who have earned these belts drive projects with clear financial targets set at the top organization, with progress monitored by the CFO. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers. Six Sigma zealots argue that if you train enough people, you get a cultural transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Maybe, as a start, we ought to describe peopley stuff in more economic language, by putting it in some context that will help our CFO and engineering friends better understand how things relate to one another. But we've got to find a way to define how well we are doing against objective measures of purpose, talent alignment, and culture.

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