Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

The leading candidate is the scheming CFO played by Frederic March, a passionless, colorless bean counter groping for power, but with no vision beyond increasing dividend payouts to stockholders. Andrew Cravenho is the CEO of CBAC Funding, an innovative invoice finance company.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

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.”. The finance team in a Health Care Company. started by asking: What do you want the people in sales and the project managers to do?

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Cooper Succession Finance Resistance 139

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Bottom line…If you can’t avoid the crazies there is still hope…I sincerely believe productive working relationships can be formed with even the most difficult people where there is a sincere desire/need to do so. I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road. Have they been fudging their research for years? I Think Not.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

The founding team is vitally important to the success of any startup, and indeed, some studies argue that the founding team are more important to the success of the startup than the product itself. Who would be CFO or COO? ” Entrepreneurial team formation. Assigning roles. Who would be CEO?

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Team Entrepreneur COO CFO 85

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

John summarizes, “The basic idea of idealized design is to create a new design for a product, service or the organization based on what is feasible today (but without being limited by the constraints of the existing state). In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

in the 1980s, put it this way: “In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Products: Compelling products (or services) create success. To the extent you create great products, that people want to buy, you will achieve success. People come first.&#

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. He is graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business’s LEAD program in Corporate Innovation. How do you avoid this fate? Make the turn. You’re avoiding some tough calls.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

John summarizes, “The basic idea of idealized design is to create a new design for a product, service or the organization based on what is feasible today (but without being limited by the constraints of the existing state). In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. Seeing these connections and implications may remind you of the need to be an active learner as a leader (not a finished product). . These charts tell a more interesting and complex story.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. With the PEAK model, leaders can learn just how much they are inclined to seek Perspectives (Innovators), Evaluate information at hand (Judges), take Action (Directors), and increase Knowledge (Professors).

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

This area of innovation is where mobile payment companies want to play, especially in markets where such technology is less than ubiquitous. We asked Square''s CFO and Operations Lead, Sarah Friar , for perspectives on this technology, what it means for marketers, and how to manage in the world of mobile innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s not easy for big companies to innovate. Moreover, the skills that are cherished and rewarded for achieving current results differ from those that aid in discovery and experimentation, both of which are needed to drive innovation. First they agreed to shift funding from small, incremental acquisitions to innovation.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. These intrinsic motivations are the invisible forces that pull you and your organization in a certain direction. By uncovering these patterns, you can unlock the motivational code for improving engagement, productivity and performance in your workplace. Decision making style.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

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. That was to let profitability outweigh passion: "My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products.

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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.

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

For years, the answer to the question “Do people really want to buy more sustainable products?” ” Surveys consistently show that we aspire to buy responsibly , and we even say we’ll pay more for environmental or socially preferable products. So why are sustainable products surging now?

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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. There are two reasons for this.

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Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

As game-changing technologies transform every business process, they also give us the ability to create new products and services that were impossible just a few years ago. Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2018

Hiring a new person is an opportunity to do something differently than before — to innovate. ” It’s not just new managers who make this mistake — a few years ago, I was invited to interview for the CFO role at a fast-growing tech company. ” Don’t just say it; learn to really mean it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Merck, Eli Lilly, and GlaxoSmithKline have all announced they are investing in early-stage biotech start-ups as a new product development strategy, hoping that external innovation will pick up where internal R&D has fallen short. Facebook Flop Won't Scare Off Growth-Company Listings (CFO). But this is no sure winner.

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Development McKinsey CFO Competitive Advantage 13

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

A strong personal brand is so much more than a memorable name or product. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." If you’re successful, your brand will leave an impact long after you’re gone. ​ ​1.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Consider Constellation Energy, a $14 billion dollar provider of power, natural gas, and energy products and services based in Baltimore. Constellation has developed an Innovation Center , an unconventional permanent facility within its headquarters. What's distinctive about having a physical innovation center?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The appointment of Mary Barra as CEO-to-be of General Motors is a signal to car-lovers everywhere that the company is serious about its products and vehicle innovation. The centrality of innovation to the future — electric cars, hybrids, self-driving cars, and beyond — makes her experience pivotal. This is a new GM.

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Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. Through discussions with a number of trusted advisors, she realized that her work of the past several years had given her fantastic contacts, experience, and credibility in the innovation world.

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Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

And as a former CFO I also understand the preoccupation with numbers, but during my time as a CEO it has become clearer to me than ever, that numbers don't tell the whole story. It doesn't matter if you are an administrative assistant or a CFO; all employees need this common experience. As a CEO leading a global U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. Protect the Downside — Demonstrate a Commitment to Continued Employment.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. Protect the Downside — Demonstrate a Commitment to Continued Employment.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

I think it's more a case of their being dissatisfied with their own lives and expecting that Apple's next product will fix everything. The constant refrain is that Apple has not introduced a disruptive product since Steve Jobs passed away. Bad product reviews: One word: Ping. Some investors are dissatisfied with Apple.

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Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The platform allows the exchange of digital information, services, and products across the power grid, allowing much greater efficiencies industrywide. This should be the dominant theme of discussions at the highest organizational levels in place of things like product quality and sales. Make the tough calls on people. Cut layers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

Increasingly, consumers on the floor know more than the sales staff about the store's products and price points — and competing offers. Some retailers are responding with clever innovations. Old Navy deployed a mobile payment checkout device over Christmas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

And indeed he had a very innovative strategy for J. Costco's CFO, Richard Galanti stated, "People are eating in more and looking for fresh food, which, along with [our] low gas prices, is what are driving people into our stores more often. Before that, he was the VP of merchandising for Target (or "Tar-jay").

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Retail Price Merchandising CFO 11

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. Consider Ann Berkley's experience when she was named Vice President of Marketing for a major division of a large consumer products company.

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