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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

These factors can divide into individual elements, including lack of confidence, low self-stability, stress, lack of ambition, lack of motivation, fear of failure, low self-efficacy, lack of commitment, and autonomy on a job. The core of this role is to keep all the steps mentioned above in action and functioning correctly.

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The Unexpected Realities of Being an Entrepreneur

Lead Change Blog

Let’s dive: Entrepreneurship can be very stressful. You cannot dare do the same thing as an entrepreneur when you are still the HR manager, marketing guru, office manager, janitor, tech guy, sales staff, CFO and CEO. It is an opportunity to create and be innovative. Here is the real truth about entrepreneurship.

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Cooperation and Outward Spiraling Success Loops

Mike Cardus

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.”. Finance team shared several stories of feeling less stressed, enjoying work more. The finance team in a Health Care Company.

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Making the Turn: 10 Warning Signs You aren’t Shifting from Founder to Leader

N2Growth Blog

If, as the pace quickens and the work becomes more complex and the stress level rises you become less curious, you’re stuck, and probably on the path to failure. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. He is graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business’s LEAD program in Corporate Innovation. You’re not listening.

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Why Startups Need To Get The Founding Team Right

The Horizons Tracker

The early stages present numerous opportunities for disagreement, whether it’s around funding or product development, and when stress and tiredness are added to the mix, it can be incredibly combustible. Who would be CFO or COO? Assigning roles. Who would be CEO?

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No Better Time

Persuasive Powerhouse

In the stress of making bottom line goals, you may be missing an opportunity to achieve more than you have. What shared interests can you learn about that you can combine to catalyze innovation for your organization? The CFO owns a couple. The pressure on you to make bottom line goals is even greater than it has ever been.

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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?