The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

Not just building it up as it currently stands, but actually shaping, maneuvering and influencing some aspects of the idea.”. Who would be CFO or COO? “To get others to feel like, ‘This startup is really ours,’ the team needs to have their fingerprints on the idea,” the researchers say. “Not Assigning roles. Who would be CEO?

Team 85

Team Entrepreneur COO CFO 85

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently. Smart product managers know the value of having allies in the CFO’s office. Product management — at every level — is a leadership role within the organization.

Productivity 182

Productivity Products Management Leadership 182

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

He was talking about how to help leaders influence others. I asked him, “Do you also teach leaders how to be influenced by others?” Yet, as our images of leaders have shifted and evolved, we still seem frozen in the mindset of Dale Carnegie’s 1936 book How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Influence 8

Influence Six Sigma Open-book Diversity 8

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. This set of patterns influences your focus, decision making and thinking style. Decision making style. Requirements for change and variety. Dominant motivation driver. Levels of strategic and visionary thinking. Relationship to norms/rules. And much more. Future Orientation.

Motivation 100

Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

We all understand that these days it’s really not so much the number of cars or assembly line or factories that a company has, but really its ability to keep up, to be competitive, to be innovative and what gives the company its competitive edge is really the people who make it. It makes me wonder where your influences are coming.

Human Capital 60

Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There's one business book on this list, and it "deeply influenced" Jobs. That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. But what's most interesting to me isn't that The Innovator's Dilemma was on that list. It's that Jobs solved the conundrum. They're freaks." Well, he was right. And he did.

Innovation 15

Innovation Christensen CFO Productivity 15

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program. Leading innovator in HR for over 25 years.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This ongoing struggle raises an issue that is endemic in such acquisitions: In search of innovation, big companies often buy other companies whose most innovative days are almost at an end. An acquirer looking for innovation would have been likelier to try to buy Gateway, a company that is almost an after-thought now.

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 13

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

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." Hubert Rampersad ​"Passionate and compassionate to inspire learning individuals to unlock their potential and dedicated to energize innovative organizations within the service and manufacturing industry.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Given the role analytics has played in reshaping industries and rewarding innovative adopters over the last two decades, it is surprising how frequently we are asked: “Does this analytics stuff really work?” We only included companies that had implemented a major analytics initiative with an innovation or similar agenda.

CFO 12

CFO Competitive Advantage Budgeting CEO 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And sameness blocks performance and innovation. Diversity, on the other hand, spurs innovation. In research spanning decades, Columbia professor Katherine Phillips has repeatedly found that, when tasked to innovate, teams that include diverse members and that value the contributions of all their members outperform homogenous teams.

Power 14

Power Management Diversity CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Simultaneously, other executives will not only experience a loss of influence but also feel vulnerable. Ironically, this allows them to actually gain stature as the “innovators” are discredited and C-suite power shifts back to how it was. ” Create an environment of rapid innovation.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Gene Morphis, former CFO of CVS and David's Bridal suggests: "There is an interesting intersection between risk management and innovation that emerges in the CMO-CIO interface." It's up to the CEO to ensure that marketing and IT are on the same page in terms of both innovation goals and risk management.

CIO 10

CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For example, Tim Sheahan, Chief Financial Officer for a large division of a multi-national corporation, aspires to become CFO of a Fortune 100 company in the future. Beyond adopting this kind of thinking, such leaders employ several steps to build and continuously upgrade their team.

Execution 14

Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Hitachi Data Systems — Be the influencer. Many companies, dipping their toes into social media and Web marketing, try to engage with bloggers who've built up audiences and exert influence over their buying decisions. That's the opportunity many businesses have today, often without realizing it.

How To 12

How To Chief Technology Officer Audience Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

A new Conference Board study, as CFO magazine reported , reveals some startling growth in greener products at a dozen big companies like Kimberly-Clark, Dow, GE, Siemens, Toshiba, and more. So why are sustainable products surging now? When I asked Target why they would go to this much trouble, they saw the big picture.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

At Banner Good Samaritan, as at any hospital, physicians are key leaders and influencers. Leadership created an optimization office reporting to the CFO to facilitate cost reduction projects, train new team members, and document and disseminate results across the system. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Cost 9

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Members of this elite club wield a disproportionate amount of influence, which is why most executives want to join. As one put it: “When I hear an executive complain that I’m sending contradictory messages when I say we need to cut costs and spend to innovate, that tells me something about their capacity to move to the next level.”

How To 8

How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

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.”

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

These leaders are recognizing that this balance drives the innovation and market understanding they need for other key business transformations. These have the unintended consequence of minimizing these groups’ overall significance, separating them from each other, and keeping them away from real networks of influence.

Diversity 8

Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

According to a 2016 study in Australia, the gender pay gap is influenced by a number of interrelated factors, including stereotypes and socialized norms about how women and men should behave in the workforce. Brett (not his real name) was the CFO of a major multinational. The gender pay gap provides an example of localized bias.

Team 8

Team Diversity Company Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The CEO and CFO were marching through their 112-slide presentation. Enthusiasm, naïveté, fear of repercussions, conformity to the group norms, and even wisdom are all things that can influence whether someone speaks up or not. Nilofer Merchant is a corporate advisor and speaker on innovation methods.

Merton 16

Merton Groupthink CFO Cost 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Success in the function did not always translate to success in the new role; sometimes an authoritative style that worked there was ineffective across boundaries, where an ability to influence is often key. The role had little influence : Some companies appointed process owners at middle management levels.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15