Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

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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Cooper Succession Finance Resistance 139

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. Leadership involves uncertainty. Leadership is messier that being the founder. One of these can derail things pretty easily. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

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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Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas. These intangible factors like culture, leadership, and motivation do not yield easily to empirical analysis. One area so far relatively untouched is change management.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Rather than setting savings targets based on the performance of other health systems, they set their sights on realizing a 4.4 Finally, the leadership team, in partnership with Booz & Company, invited people from across the system to collaborate in cost reduction. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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