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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.

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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team

Chart Your Course

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. Your CFO should be Captain America with the emotional range of a rock.

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Developing The CEO Within You.

Rich Gee Group

For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely. How To Be More Productive When You Work From Home. What got them to this position (IQ) is now failing them. Smile or Die! Happy Birthday IBM!

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How the CFO and General Counsel Can Partner More Effectively

Harvard Business Review

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC). Compliance.

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Three P's of business success

Lead on Purpose

in the 1980s, put it this way: “In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Products: Compelling products (or services) create success. To the extent you create great products, that people want to buy, you will achieve success. People come first.&#

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To bid or not to bid? That is the question.

Strategy Driven

They’ve refined the buying process so far that they have precluded the words ‘quality’ and ‘value’ from the buying process AND they have taken the words productivity, ease of use, and morale out of the delivery process. The main goal of bidding is NOT get the best product. Make an appointment with the CFO.

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Why We’re Seeing So Many Corporate Scandals

Harvard Business Review

These are different from the kind of product-safety scandals we grew accustomed to in the 20 th century. Second, they don’t consider at a human level how their stated strategic intents shape the acceptable ethical boundaries for those who must turn those intents into reality. That responsibility ultimately lies at the very top.

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