Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Have you ever been in a work situation where your boss or manager is explaining in specific detail how to do your job? It’s frustrating when managers live in the weeds. I jumped at my first opportunity to take a two-week vacation, leaving the company reins in the hands of one of my top managers.

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Simon Micromanagement Leadership Styles CFO 248

Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Joel Peterson has been around the block serving as a leader in various roles—CEO, CFO, founder, investor, entrepreneur—and is currently the chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. The Administrator manages process with predictability and efficiency. What is your objective?”.

Leadership 268

Leadership Entrepreneur CFO Objective 268

N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2014

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. Each global region gets 10 min.

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Review CFO Operations Efficiency 388

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2018

In light of this, you should continuously look for ways to ensure that your business finances are well managed. On that note, you’re going to find some key money management tips every business should consider below. The goal should be to save as much as you can as it all adds up at the end of the day. Look for Discounts.

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Tips Management Budgeting Discount 53

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2024

The individuals manage the critical functioning of a majority of Google’s services, which makes it all the more unexpected to see the company choose to let them go. Earlier this year, CFO Ruth Porat announced layoffs at Google’s finance department and restructuring efforts there as they moved to keep up with the shifting tech world.

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Trends Decentralization CFO Bureaucracy 59

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 16, 2012

In many organizations and occupations, “management by walking around” and micromanagement have fell by the wayside, either by design or out of necessity. After all, the role of “manager” must have been invented for a reason, right? Develop a vision, set of 2-3 year goals, and actions plans. They weren’t kidding.

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Span of Control How To CFO Metrics 240

HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The HR is supposed to be a true partner to the CEO, just like the CFO. Predicting outcomes means weighing how balanced the manager is with respect to workload and opportunities, how fast he can scale up into digitization, and how flexible he can handle situations during a bad economy. That’s absolutely wrong.

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CEO CFO McKinsey Human Resources 63

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Guest Post By: Rania Stewart, senior product manager with Peoplefluent.com. Take a quick scan of the managers and company leaders. Perhaps your manager had your job title a few years or months back, or your new CFO recently transitioned into the role from heading the accounting department.

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Career Company Software Handbook 247

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2015

Usually the CEO and the CFO have the biggest impact on organization-wide changes, but it is not always so; in some cases the hierarchy doesn’t reflect the amount of influence, so it’s advisable to check everything carefully. If the influence is not positive, you should create strategies to manage the opposition. Where should you start?

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Project Succession Stakeholder Analysis Influence 150

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Bernd shares: “As a manager, you need to know how to give feedback. ” CFO Jon Verbeck gives us a major pointer for increasing our profits, and helps leaders understand these important elements of running a department or business. Justin Setzer of Plan to Lead provided Five Steps to Crush Your Business and Life Goals.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership IAS 269

Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

I recently spoke with the CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing company about his new CFO who was poised to attend our flagship program for senior executives, Leadership at the Peak. She was respected by colleagues and employees, and over time had become the right-hand assistant to the CFO. How to Increase Your Executive Presence.

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Charisma CFO CEO Execution 65

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

How many leaders and managers of large corporations watched Hayward implode on television and thought to themselves, "I never want that to be me"! How are risk assessment, and more specifically -- enterprise risk management ("ERM") implemented in your organization?

CEO 240

CEO Compliance Organization Report 240

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward. When you automate, you minimize errors and gain the time you need to focus on organizational goals. This 4-page guide outlines 7 ways that automated compensation management software improves your ROI: Streamlined data and workflow processes. by Ultimate Software.

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Resources CFO ROI Risk Management 50

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Without it they won't have the time or expertise required to manage the development of 10-20 executives or high potentials. A support team should consist of the head of HR, a project manager and or administrative support person, and at least one executive "coach" (or more, depending on the number of IDPs). Tracking and follow-up.

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Process Execution CFO CEO 227

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

My goal with the book was to help leaders understand the expectations that others have of them and what they need to pick up and let go of when they’re moving into big new roles or situations. Making that connection was what led me to write my first book, The Next Level. Frankly, some of those went really well and others were just so-so.

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Development Long-term Workshop Learning-by-Doing 235

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As Ed Bernbaum, a mountaineer and Senior Fellow at the Mountain Institute writes, “Just as Everest stretches people to do more than they thought they could, so companies want to stretch their employees to reach the loftiest goals, to be number one in the field, to provide the best product or service in the industry group.”

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Leadership Styles CFO Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 120

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2015

You cannot dare do the same thing as an entrepreneur when you are still the HR manager, marketing guru, office manager, janitor, tech guy, sales staff, CFO and CEO. With some of these other jobs, you can leave behind the workload and take some time out. Let’s flip over to the bright side of the coin: It’s rewarding.

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Entrepreneur CFO Maturity Long-term 150

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shared Bell Labs Designing a New Phone System Using Idealized Design. In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company. Or do you focus on just one big goal?” Find Jon on Twitter at @jonverbeck1.

Leadership Development 331

Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 331

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

These terms define a specific set of sequenced actions buyers take to enable internal consensus and change – change management issues, if you will – rather than define steps that address needs or vendor/solution choice which come later and are the focus of sales. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department). meet with BDT.

CFO 50

CFO Consensus Budgeting Brand 50

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

The pressure on you to make bottom line goals is even greater than it has ever been. In the stress of making bottom line goals, you may be missing an opportunity to achieve more than you have. The CFO owns a couple. The improvement of the economy is slower than most would like. You are making do with fewer resources.

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Greenleaf Maslow Goal Goleman 200

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

For example, A successful CFO is likely to have such MAPs (Motivation and Attitudinal patterns) as — strong motivation toward procedures over options; a preference for solving problems over focus on goals; and a high past time orientation that drives focus on traditions, past experience and benchmarks. Goal Orientation.

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Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He explains that: Company culture is the system of beliefs, values, goals, behaviors, and the way employees feel working in the organization—from leadership style, decision-making norms, customer experience, and company policies—officially and unofficially.

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Chief Executive Officer Agility Loyalty CFO 65

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shared Bell Labs Designing a New Phone System Using Idealized Design. In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company. Or do you focus on just one big goal?” Find Jon on Twitter at @jonverbeck1.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 201

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Being a Manager is tough and being accountable for the work as well as the behavior of a subordinate adds another layer of complexity onto your challenges. The COO Nikhil recently promoted Jackson from Production Manager to General Manager of Production. Get Nikhil to stop “over-managing” him in the Executive Meetings.

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Case Study COO Metrics Objective 147

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shared Podcast: Increasing the Capability of the Organization. John summarizes, “Changing how organizations are managed makes a huge difference in people’s lives. Business owners must not ignore the goal of making a profit. Find Jon on Twitter at @jonverbeck1.

Leadership Development 150

Leadership Development Development Leadership Ethics 150

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

We may be very proud of our plans , which include detailed daily goals for diet, alcohol consumption, and exercise. If leadership development is not enough of a priority for the company to establish goals and track progress against those goals, it will be difficult to make any succession planning process work.

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Planning Efficiency Succession Tips 118

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven.

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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 313

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

If you learn to plan, structure, and participate in meetings effectively, you will be able improve your own time management and productivity as well as that of other participants. It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The CFO will care about profits. The CFO might be interested but would wonder how profitable those sales will be. You can get a copy of their goals or strategic plan. He’s the managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a leadership development training firm. The VP of Sales will care about sales.

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Metrics CFO Chief Financial Officer Marketing 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Because no one is managing the store. The day-to-day financial activity within the organization is then executed by management and staff, who shoulder the responsibility — delegated to them by the enterprise as part of their job — to account for funds, both incoming and outgoing. Back to the Future.

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CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The main goal of bidding is NOT get the best product. The main goal of bidding is get the cheapest price. This is not as difficult as it sounds, especially if you can apply internal pressure to senior management where your product will be used. Make an appointment with the CFO. Nor, for the most part, do they care.

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Proposal Price Long-term Customer Loyalty 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

” and “Work on my time management!” ” He asked each student to get more specific, write down the goal, and bring it to the next class. As I watched the class, I reflected on how these kids were likely to meet their goals because they had the additional support from their teacher and each other.

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Safe Harbor Goal Class Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

One area so far relatively untouched is change management. The failure of major transformation projects to deliver the expected benefits is a well-documented phenomenon : many change programs simply do not achieve their business goals. A big obstacle is the change management profession itself (of which we are all proud members).

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The answer involves radically reframing one of the mainstays of the C-suite — the role of the CFO. It’s no longer adequate or acceptable for CFOs to simply focus on managing the financial risks of a company. The financial and business impact of cyber incidents today requires the CFO to lean into the solution.

CFO 8

CFO CIO Budgeting Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. Such friction is destructive — and a huge missed opportunity, because the CFO and the strategy head are far more effective when they collaborate. Tapping the most promising growth spots.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. This, in turn, is triggering a shift in the perceived role of the CFO — from bean counters to planters of seed corn. Redefining the CFO role.

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Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

If you are sitting in a job interview and hear the words "dotted line reporting," you have just encountered the world of matrix management. These relationships occur frequently in jobs with internal customers, like human resources generalists, facility managers, or business systems analysts in information technology.

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Management CFO Human Resources Report 8