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Elon Musk by Walter Isaascson

Leading Blog

Even though Musk’s approach doesn’t necessarily provide a blueprint to be copied any more than Steve Jobs’ approach did (even though both individuals got results), it does offer lessons to be learned and applied in our own leadership. Entrepreneurs are actually not risk takers,” says X.com CFO Roelof Botha. They’re risk mitigators.

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10 Reasons Why Every Manager Should take a Finance Course

Great Leadership By Dan

The audience was mostly engineers – program and project managers, the ones in charge of designing and making complex stuff. Yes, you too can speak like a CFO! finance leadership business acumen finance and accounting for leaders finance' They will call you on it. You’ll be able to hold your own in management and board meetings.

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An Effective Business Review Meeting?

N2Growth Blog

Another common complaint about Business Review Meetings is that nearly always the time gets hijacked with discussions on day-to-day operating or tactical issues, especially when we have a room full of engineers turned managers; they quickly dive down into trying to fix the problem right then.

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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Product management — at every level — is a leadership role within the organization. Here are the key roles that are crucial to your success as a product manager, and why they are important: Engineering/QA: The relationship with the engineering/development team is paramount for product managers.

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Let’s Stop Pushing “Development” as a Cheap Replacement for Training

Great Leadership By Dan

A slightly abbreviated version of this post was recently published in Smartblog on Leadership : True confession time. Sales reps were trained in their products and how to sell them, scientists went to conferences, engineers were offered continued training to keep their skills up to date, and new managers were trained how to manage.

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

Strategy Driven

Months of investigation by a cyber consulting firm finally determined the source of the vulnerability to Azotrope’s network: a combination printer/fax machine in their testing and QA area that engineers regularly used to fax lunch orders to a local Chinese restaurant. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? An excerpt is below.

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Nice Guys Can Finish First

Marshall Goldsmith

Who would you rather have as a CFO? And not many people remember that Jack Welch has a PhD in chemical engineering. But further along in your career curve, when it’s time to step up into a leadership position, you’re going to need these qualities in spades. Leadership'

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