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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. If your CFO is doing something financially shady, SOX says that he is either doing it with you or to you.

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How Charismatic and Incompetent Managerial-Leaders are Destructive

Mike Cardus

Contact Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership to fix this before it happens. Below is a story from a company I consulted & coached the management team. Consulting and examining this with the company CEO, CFO, COO and Sr. If they are “Charismatic” it adds an irritant that only makes things worse.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business Review

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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Why So Many Leadership Programs Ultimately Fail

Harvard Business Review

I''ve designed and taught everything from one-day team buildings to 30-day wilderness trips, from business school classes to corporate trainings, from simulations to executive leadership courses. The goal of any leadership development program is to change behavior. The room was silent and I could feel the tension rise.