N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe your CFO is a family friend. You’re not managing your energy well. You must concentrate on managing your energy because there are so many demands on your time, that you can’t meet them all. Effective time management begins with good energy management. Their organizational culture happens by default.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 208

Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Everyone knows the roles and responsibilities for a CEO, CFO and CTO but change the wording and a different picture emerges. Mary Jo recaps, “Coaching takes time and energy. Imagine, for example, a CEO tasked as the Chief Engagement Officer.” ” Find Eileen on Twitter at @macdarling. .”

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Leadership Development Development Leadership CTO 264

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Big companies have been buying a lot of clean energy lately – 3.5 They put up almost no capital and usually lower their day-to-day energy costs. First, due in large part to the scale and consistency of their energy purchasing, industrials already pay the lowest rates for power. Get early buy-in. Use cross-functional teams.

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Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Andrea Jung should infuse some energy into the board which has been under fire for backdating company stock options. She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Press Release CEO Discount PR 124

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

When CEO Jeff Skilling proclaimed, “I am Enron,” the energy giant was at its peak. The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. Then came the tempest. Their fatal lack of humility damaged the public’s trust in business leaders in general.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Even the CEO was in the action, asking the Board to let him terminate the CFO without addressing the issues directly with him. One member of the team, the CFO, realized that he was contributing to the problem. That is because the wronged often lack the energy and resilience to make another earnest attempt at making the team better.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

A recent Washington Post investigation titled “The big problem for Uber now: Attracting talent” detailed the roots of this problem throughout the company and at the top, where 13 of the top 20 management positions remain empty, including the positions of COO and CFO. Khosrowshahi has much working in his favor.

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CEO IPO Energy COO 12

Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 24, 2013

Like many people today, Erin Callan, the former CFO of Lehman Brothers, slowly slipped into a life where her job was #1, ahead of every relationship in her life. To have sufficient energy to work an exhausting schedule throughout the week, she spent weekends sleeping. Eventually she reached a point where what she did was who she was.

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Stress CFO Energy Development 316

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Consider Constellation Energy, a $14 billion dollar provider of power, natural gas, and energy products and services based in Baltimore. It includes all the administrative VPs, the CFO, chief medical officer, and the chief nursing officer. In our virtual world, working face-to-face is increasingly rare. Now they love it.

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Brainstorming CFO Innovation Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. The company’s CFO asked a crowd of the company’s most accomplished finance leaders to raise their hand if they had attended an Ivy League school. Hardly anyone raised their hand. It was, indeed, just a hidden preference.

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Power Management Diversity CFO 11

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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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

A leader with significant experience in negotiating international energy agreements moved from Petronas, the national oil company, to Telekom Malaysia where she acquired skills in operating an integrated telecommunications network. The main driver for me was to be CFO of a quoted company. I wanted that experience.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. The platform brings wind, solar and other renewable energy producers — even individual homes equipped with solar panels — into the same ecosystem. Cut layers.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

We spend an inordinate amount of time, and a tremendous amount of energy, making choices between equally attractive options in everyday situations. If these mundane decisions drag on our time and energy, think about the bigger ones we need to make, in organizations, all the time. Is this a silly decision not deserving deliberation?

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CFO Energy Efficiency CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

He had an entrepreneurial mindset and performed at his best during a phase in the business cycle when much of his time and energy went into deal-making with outside partners. After working with a coach, a CFO realized that she was not particularly good at, nor did she much enjoy, managing people in a large, globally dispersed finance team.

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360-Degree Feedback Execution Real Estate Executive Coaching 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. ” “Bringing the company back to a high level of operational performance will take the focus and energy of hundreds of employees,” Joss said.

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Case Study CFO Bottom-up Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Once you reach this awareness, you can consciously take action to regain your foothold by engaging in a set of grounding and centering practices, allowing you to channel your energy more adaptively and constructively. In the words of my friend, and former Microsoft CFO, Frank Gaudette: “I reserve the right to wake up smarter every day.”.

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Self-aware PR Public Relations CFO 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Facebook’s first HR hire, she has led global people programs, been an HR Business Partner, and CFO. He has spent more than 15 years investing in industries such as healthcare, energy, industrials, and technology. Everett Alexander – Chief investment officer who formerly worked at Invesco Ltd. He is a family business coach.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Often citing the maxim that "cash is king", CFOs know that strategic cash can enhance shareholder value in various ways. As long as the CFO can stipulate that the company does not intend to repatriate the cash, it avoids the incremental tax that will be levied due to the territorial system of U.S. It can: Save Taxes.

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Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. Some localities had bought lights but failed to fully utilize the accompanying technology, which meant they couldn’t service them properly or achieve the hoped-for energy savings.

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Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.”

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Interestingly, Dominic Caruso also came with the deal for that small biotech company, and he is now the pharma giant's CFO. In many acquisitions, acquiring talent with fresh energy and thinking is as crucial as acquiring raw innovation.

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Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Anything they spot is reported directly, in writing, to Greenberg and a few other executives, including CFO Howard Smith. But still, given Greenberg's undisputed managerial brilliance and boundless energy, you can't entirely laugh off his claim.

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Insurance Long-term Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. ” Mulcahy further cautions that, “the things that work for you as CEO work against you as a retiree, such as being in command and your high energy level.” Charles McQuillan/Getty Images. It’s double retirement.”

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

A new Conference Board study, as CFO magazine reported , reveals some startling growth in greener products at a dozen big companies like Kimberly-Clark, Dow, GE, Siemens, Toshiba, and more. And it’s not just happening at Target. So why are sustainable products surging now? besides the military.

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Ask your CFO if greater than 50% of their profit objective is a combination of population growth, raising prices (without real innovation), or cost cutting. That''s the reality of category growth: It can deliver far greater growth than pie-splitting, and many companies should be spending much more time and energy trying to achieve it.

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Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

How," I bet they'll ask themselves, "could they spend their time, energy, and resources — their very lives — in pursuit of the trivial and the inconsequential, the pedestrian and the pointless, the predatory and the predictable?

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Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Such executives base their efforts to build team strength on the answers to two fundamental questions: Where do I need to spend my time and focus my energies? 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.

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Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

After a few tepid responses, Walter, the CFO, threw out a grenade headline: Company tries desperately to hang on to aging cash cows and antiquated ways of doing business in the flawed hope that they can maintain the status quo forever. It was a great question.

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COO Short-term CFO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

Jeff Haydock was spearheading bidding negotiations on behalf of a solar energy company for a large installation project in a Massachusetts town. The other side may have their own unique pressures that restrict their ability to maneuver. Case study #1: Pausing to inquire.

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Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Leadership created an optimization office reporting to the CFO to facilitate cost reduction projects, train new team members, and document and disseminate results across the system. The result is akin to turning on a light bulb—it releases the energy needed to truly transform the quality and cost of care.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Or it could be indirectly, as Opower does in giving people benchmarking data on energy usage to foster conservation and efficiency. This could be directly, as Sephora does with its online communities using beauty tips as currencies. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Instead of focusing on the work you have to do together, you may end up wasting time and energy trying to keep your emotions in check and attempting to manage the person's behavior. Pompous jerk, annoying nudge, or incessant complainer, an insufferable colleague can negatively affect your attitude and performance.

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Goleman How To Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Consider how Dutch energy company Essent is redesigning the customer experience. Delivering on journeys requires many different parts of the organization to come together, such as working with the CIO on the technology implications of developing journeys, and providing the CFO with hard ROI data on customer journey investments.

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COO Planning Metrics Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In a tragic example, at a Dutch energy supplier that used rigorous, transparent safety standards to deal with toxic waste, employees came to work one day to find the company’s safety officer dead of a workplace accident. One year, the CFO noticed that there was a miscalculation that resulted in a shortage of a few million euros.

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How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The next day, back in Istanbul, Sena met with Ahmet Ozan, the company’s CFO. Erkan Malas was FDM Turkey’s COO, and from the start he had chafed at Sena’s appointment and approach. “Change is necessary to survival,” Sophie replied. “Yes, but maybe it doesn’t need to happen so fast.”

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Case Study CEO Banking Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies have spent enormous energy responding to the existential threat of new entrants. If you or I were the CFO of a manufacturing company, and we were in a board meeting, and the board asked, “What is your manufacture and capacity utilization?” And let me explain to you what I mean. Think about that, Angelia.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8