Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

The Common Approach – and Why it Doesn’t Really Work When evaluating external recruiters, most hiring managers start by asking: “how many placements have you made in our industry?” If the agency has worked in your industry, presumably they understand what companies like yours value. On the surface, this makes a lot of sense.

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Execution Chief Financial Officer Industry Strategy 213

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. In this post, I compare the ineptitude of BP against the leadership of Rudy Giuliani during a much bigger crisis. But as the year closes, I realize that I’ve posted 54 blogs.

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Blog Mission Statement Strategic Planning Brand 222

Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

The answer to this question varies greatly depending on experience, industry and many other factors. in the 1980s, put it this way: “In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Too often we leave the worries and cares about money to the CFO’s office.

Succession 133

Succession CFO Ethics Taylorism 133

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Some industries, like photography and media, were impacted earlier. The Future of Financial Services.

Industry 12

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 13, 2017

After all, I had earned it, having just finished a 28 year run as a CPA, cable company VP of Operations, football stadium project manager, VP of Development for another cable company, and finally, a cable company SVP of Operations. They kept the “fire in my belly” every single day I stepped into the leadership arena.

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CPA COO CFO Leadership 192

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world. Recognize that a diverse leadership team delivers superior long-term performance. Diversity Multinational Leadership'

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Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

Certainly we know that heads of finance and HR tend to move around a lot more because the skills are very transferrable, and in fact it looks better for an HR executive or CFO to show a breadth of industry. You actually get a bit disadvantaged if you''ve been in the same company or the same industry your whole career, as an HR person.

CEO 9

CEO CFO COO Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

” Yet business leaders who took the CHRO role, including Quinn, report it is the most impactful role in their career, and many would not accept an organizational leadership position that didn’t come with the CHRO role. Of course, they haven’t had a chance to think it through, but that’s the first reaction.”

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Borrowing and lending talent is common and even essential in one particular industry — professional soccer. For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Some recent CEO appointments in these industries include Yahoo!’s

CEO 12

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

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. a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. Ascension saved 10%–15% a year by aggregating all of those contracts and negotiating from the strength of the combined operation.

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Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Wilson was an industry outsider (he had previously worked as a management consultant and the head of corporate planning at an airline), whom Stemberg described as a “provocateur” and an “in-your-face kind of guy.” So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer.

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

But that mind-set's simply too focused and operational. Truly strategic leaderships — and their boards — should treat Brin's "worst idea" as their most provocative thought experiment for revisiting how they recognize and value data. Does our data suggest exciting investment options in adjacent or complementary industries?

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In research spanning 20 years, we closely examined 36 companies in eight industries to find out why companies are struggling. Insurance, a very analytics-intensive industry, saw nearly half of CAOs changing roles over an 18-month period.). But poor ROI is only part of the story. Chief Analytics Officers (CAOs) were frequently replaced.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Instead, once people have leadership responsibilities, their calendar gets crammed with more and more meetings and trips. One of my students signed up for a project to re-think best leadership practices at his company. Career planning Leadership Managing yourself' Expand your contribution from the outside in.

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Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Cost cutting is difficult in any industry, but it’s particularly challenging in healthcare, where organizations are simultaneously undergoing a major transformation to improve care and the patient experience. Banner’s leaders made a conscious choice to eschew industry benchmarks in the cost initiative.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. If Apple is to maintain the level of success it's achieved in the past 15 years, it may need to enter those industries in the next 15. Apple could unveil a new car and they'd say Apple's days are over because it's just bet its future on an industry it knows nothing about.

Marketing 10

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In the 2000s, the number of Chief Supply Chain Officers in large firms shot up in several industries, while the “War for Talent” spurred companies to add Chief Talent Officers to their benches. Thus, for example, CEOs who are financial specialists should be careful if their main confidant is the CFO.

Execution 8

Execution Team Committee COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In 1992 the company was in cost-cutting mode, and, as former CFO Orry Fiume told me, it was consequently offering an early retirement package designed to reduce headcount. What if you're in a contracting industry like newspapers? Protect the Downside — Demonstrate a Commitment to Continued Employment. Share the Big Picture.

Attrition 15

Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In 1992 the company was in cost-cutting mode, and, as former CFO Orry Fiume told me, it was consequently offering an early retirement package designed to reduce headcount. What if you're in a contracting industry like newspapers? Protect the Downside — Demonstrate a Commitment to Continued Employment. Share the Big Picture.

Attrition 12

Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Think of platforms and networks in our digital age as the equivalent of electricity and motors in the industrial age. After all, there is a multibillion-dollar industry focused on customer relationship management. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Instead she was ramping up mobile-banking operations—which competitors were also doing—and looking to experiment with something more innovative: partnerships with supermarkets and electronics stores that would allow FDM to set up kiosks within them. The industry is changing. “Oh, yes. ” The Risks of Not Acting.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Banking Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

You used to be able to track everything with an Excel spreadsheet, personally designed by your CFO; now you’ve got an SAP installation in its place, supported by an entire IT department. For years, the company led its industry, guided by strong growth ambitions and aggressive investors. Celebrate and reward frontline heroes.

Company 9

Company IPO Price Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. The lack of control meant that the leadership team had little say in how the Contect brand was being managed at a local level. Now Vera was getting worked up.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

At one multibillion-euro industrial equipment firm, for example, sales, marketing, and maintenance managers simply couldn’t get beyond the belief that a smart online parts catalog was all they and their customers needed. But, to the C-suite’s great credit, leadership insisted that everyone cooperate. ” So they did.

Engineering 8

Engineering Company White Paper Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8