N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Clark Callahan – Managing Director, Custom Programs Harvard Business School Executive Education. Formerly led the growth of Executive Education at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Former CEOs / Advisors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. Getting the CFO on board is key. CFO Tim Olson of ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, went through a similar conversion. Then I became an advocate. Now I know that.".

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Training and education – How do you train employees to identify and report concerns? Open lines of communication – Does your company have a hotline that operates 24/7/365 and is staffed by competent individuals who know how to properly intake and triage emergency reports or concerns?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The teams with the most compelling ideas were given an opportunity to present and defend their idea to the innovation investment committee, which included the CEO, CFO, and a few other senior executives. product vs. operational) and referenced the same stages (e.g. ideation” and “rapid prototyping”).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

As BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has said, “One reason for investors’ short-term horizons is that companies have not sufficiently educated them about the ecosystems they are operating in, what their competitive threats are and how technology and other innovations are impacting their businesses.” Cut layers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Education crowdfunder DonorsChoose.org, which finances classroom-based projects, is a good model of success. For example, Cesar Bocanegra started as VP for operations, then asked to take on human resources as well. As the organization has grown, CEO Charles Best has encouraged senior executives to take on increasing responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It’s time to dedicate a full-time person to building your knowledge base and providing customer education support. Scaling up comes with CFO and board pressure to gain efficiency, and the natural tendency of a business will be to squeeze customer teams. At this stage, you too will spend lots of time talking about operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. Higher education (Apple is already on its way to transforming that with iBooks Author and the iPad). No iPad mini at all. Executive exodus: In 2008, Tony Fadell, senior vice president of the iPod division, stepped down. His wife, the VP of HR at Apple, also left. Apple's is 13.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

They might impersonate a bank, saying, “Hey, I know you’re about to go and get an operation, don’t forget to transfer some money by clicking here,” or whatever. And then you think, “Well, they know I’m having an operation tomorrow, so they must be a legitimate bank.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

As one CFO told me, the phrase "IT Risk" contains two dirty words. They''ll even work with other silos — IT operations, application development, compliance, legal, HR, etc. Cyber Security Depends on Education. Surprisingly, many people say it was "how to have the IT risk conversation.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Bennett, an operations manager, spoke up from the back of the room. That would require building an operation from the ground up — not to mention changing our name," she said. That the money will go toward improving the education system or building new roads, instead of just lining their pockets? But Gabriella responded.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

“I have no education or training to do anything else. ” Ken turned to his CFO, expecting a reaction, and got one: “Respectfully, Mari-san, I would be extremely uncomfortable putting a request of that size to management. “Why have you stayed?” ” Ken asked. Nobuo shrugged. This is what I know.

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Case Study Airlines COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. I’m not against benchmarking and norming.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Now, digital-education upstarts are trying to unbundle the university. Peter Currie , our CFO, and I were doing it, and I said, “All right, one last question.” And so, ironically, the bundlers of that era were operating probably illegally, in the way that they were forcing the bundle and then price-fixing the bundle.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2014

The company was known for being a generous donor to nonprofits, both in Minnesota and in the out-of-state cities where it had stores; it gave 5% of its pre-tax operating profits to charity each year. Think about how we support the expansion of federal food education and safety programs. Camilla asked, referring to Natural Foods’ CFO.

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