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Why Everyone's Working So Hard

Marshall Goldsmith

They enjoyed incredible job security, great benefits, lifetime health care, and guaranteed pensions. Recently, in a conversation with the CFO of a blue chip company, I observed an example of the impact of this increased compensation. Professionals and managers were working 35 to 40 hours per week. Those days are gone!

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. The Future of Health Care. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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How U.S. Health Care Got Safer by Focusing on the Patient Experience

Harvard Business Review

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow.

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Cooperation and Outward Spiraling Success Loops

Mike Cardus

The finance team in a Health Care Company. Was struggling with sales representatives and project managers turning in expense and budget reports on-time…They told me “We have tried everything and our CFO is tired to putting out fires for us.”. Wow…that sounds challenging. Here is an example of a team that thought the same thing.

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Making the Turn: 10 Warning Signs You aren’t Shifting from Founder to Leader

N2Growth Blog

Maybe your CFO is a family friend. He holds a BA in Philosophy and History from Colorado College and an MBA in Health Care Administration from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Their organizational culture happens by default. Leaders know that building a culture by design is critical to business success.

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Who’s Better at Strategy: CFOs or CSOs?

Harvard Business Review

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.

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

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. After all, it’s the CFO who typically sets expectations about growth to investors and then allocates resources to ensure their organizations deliver. ” Many did.