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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

How would your CFO or CIO handle this? We strongly recommend that you download the latest firmware containing the hotfixes as instructed in the security advisory. An excerpt is below. We have become aware of vulnerabilities involving certain NETGEAR products and have issued a security advisory.

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You Can't Argue With Crazy | N2Growth Blog

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

For example, A successful CFO is likely to have such MAPs (Motivation and Attitudinal patterns) as — strong motivation toward procedures over options; a preference for solving problems over focus on goals; and a high past time orientation that drives focus on traditions, past experience and benchmarks. Email me with any questions.

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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road.

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CFO’s Guide to Building an HR Team with Limited Time, Budget and Resources

Get your copy today and learn three things every CFO should focus on: Areas where high-functioning teams invest resources. Download the guide! Based on 30 years of working with HR and finance leaders—along with lots of interviews and research— we’ve developed this guide that highlights what it takes to build a high-functioning HR team.

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How U.S. Health Care Got Safer by Focusing on the Patient Experience

Harvard Business Review

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. Readers interested in seeing these analyses in greater detail can download the report without charge here.

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Dealing With Investors the Sam Palmisano Way

Harvard Business Review

The abridged version is that Palmisano and then-CFO Mark Loughridge came up with what they called the “investor model” or the “road map” — a strategic plan complete with multi-year goals for investment, revenue growth, and earnings growth that they asked investors to judge them by.

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9 Ways to Manage Costs and Prepare for Future Growth

Successfully managing it requires the CFO and HR leader to make complex decisions quickly, without rushing into an uncoordinated response. Rather, the list is meant as a framework for a conversation between CFOs and HR leaders, both of whom will come to these decisions with a unique and valuable perspective.

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Paycor CFO Survey: The State of American Business in 2021

Download Paycor’s latest survey to find out. HR is more bullish on both the short- and long-term. Less than 10% of HR technology is highly effective at mitigating risk. How are business leaders adapting to life during/after COVID?