Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

As a leader you need to know how to judge raw human talent. In The Talent Masters , Bill Conaty and Ram Charan explain how to do it. Your talent assessment/development systems should have as much “rigor and repeatability as systems used for finance and operations.” A business partnership with human resources.

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Development Charan Leadership CFO 283

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group. Author: How to Be Happy at Work. . Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Strategy to Execution Advisors.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A new study by The Bridgespan Group, based on a survey of more than 400 nonprofit C-suite executives and dozens of interviews, surfaced this surprising finding and discussed how to address this leadership development deficit. Education crowdfunder DonorsChoose.org, which finances classroom-based projects, is a good model of success.

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Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. “You’re surprised?”

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

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?” What they realize is that they’ve always treated finance and financial management as a tier-one asset. Think about that, Angelia.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8