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Making the Turn: 10 Warning Signs You aren’t Shifting from Founder to Leader

N2Growth Blog

When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. In addition to driving business results you are making time to ensure each team and each individual are doing their own work of personal and professional development. Make the turn.

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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” The CE is responsible for developing new business models and value propositions for the company’s future growth. You must develop a new process that measures whether you’re making progress in building new businesses. You persevere.

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Before You Link Pay to Customer Feedback: Five Essentials

Harvard Business Review

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. A well-known early adopter of the Net Promoter system began linking NPS improvement to executive compensation before it had developed adequate disciplines and processes for understanding its scores. "We Truly reliable feedback and metrics.

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The Economically Out-of-Date Nation-State

Harvard Business Review

Financial Times journalist Wolf once extolled the successes of globalized markets and painted dissenters who worried about the risk to national fortunes as wild-eyed radicals. What CFO could survive informing the board that he neglected to use international tax havens because, gosh, somebody has to help out America's deficit?

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