N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

These CEOs are overly trusting, and often politically naive. If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. The Unaware CEO : These CEO’s will take any report or piece of information at face value.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

And, I had to wonder, how motivating did Colleen Johnston, CFO, TD Bank Financial Group find that comment? The bottom-line here for me is this: As leaders, we can all choose to back things because they’re “politically” correct and good for our personal brands. Gee Mr. Clark, couldn’t you do a little better than that??

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. Million; not big, but interesting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

But this makes the still lingering CMO-CFO disconnect even more significant, as both executives are now stewards of that critical corporate data. We found that we shared a passion for finance, the stock market, innovation, and marketing (and, candidly, politics). Can (and should) you track results instantly?

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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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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It’s best summed up by the phrase “policy and politics” which I’ve adapted as “ ideas and influence ” for its application to business. Given how much stuff was coming at us…we probably spent much more time trying to get the policy right than trying to get the politics right. and public opinion.”

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 6, 2010

A CEO asked me to coach his potential successor, the CFO. It didn't take long before I just felt that the CEO just didn't like the CFO. I brought it to his attention: "I just don't think you like the CFO." or to work on developing him as your successor, if you really don't want him to have the job?" the CEO told me. "If

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

It means responding productively to political opposition — maybe even bad-faith backstabbing — without getting sidetracked, distracted, or losing your focus. Ever since I started teaching leadership on mountaineering expeditions in the late 80''s, the question of how to develop leaders has absorbed me. That''s leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Eventually her team ended up with a portfolio of investments that caught the attention of the CFO and CEO because some were bringing new technologies into the company’s supply chain, and others were hinting at new business models for engaging with customers.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2018

Stemberg turned to Basil Anderson, who had tackled similar challenges as CFO of Campbell Soup and Scott Paper. the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team). Like Wilson, Anderson was able to lead the senior team.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

An interview with the board of directors is standard for the CEO, CFO, and nonprofit Executive Director hiring processes, but the group interview approach is becoming more common for many other positions. If one person can’t stop talking, it’s up to you to turn her off politely. Manage the meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

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. Unlike declarative statements, which only require listeners to be polite, questions require them to “go active” as they think of an answer and try to figure out why the boss is asking.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

In today’s resource-constrained environment, many of us are delivering 120% on the current demands of our job—but devoting little time to developing ourselves further or positioning ourselves for a future move. If you’re ambitious but your job offers you limited opportunities for exploration and growth, what can you do to develop new skills?

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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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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. Why do people call meetings that aren’t prepared? It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Friedman has gone from trumpeting that The World is Flat and we'd better get used to it, to worrying that That Used to Be Us — the recent book on American competitiveness he co-authored with political scientist Michael Mandelbaum. Our political system will not remediate the contradictions of the global corporation through policy.

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