Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

During dinner with the CFO [.]. A preferred future stands on an un-preferred present. Dissatisfaction is easy, optimism is necessary. Seeing the light dimly: Things come together at the strangest times.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

It is a mindset that is even more critical in today’s unstable world and is the sine qua non of crisis leadership. Joel Peterson has been around the block serving as a leader in various roles—CEO, CFO, founder, investor, entrepreneur—and is currently the chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

One of the challenges organizations face in developing their senior executives is the need for "mass customization". However, a lot of these same organizations struggle with creating effective development plans, and get frustrated when even the best plans don't get implemented and produce the results they hoped to achieve.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

When I met James as well as the company’s CEO and CFO over Zoom, I told them that we should admit that COVID-19 seriously interrupted our world and will not disappear anytime soon. Even those who had desk jobs struggled with working from their homes due to the total absence of preparation for a remote setup.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2014

A new CFO came on board and decided that training was a luxury that could no longer be afforded. The Center for Creative Leadership is known for its “ 70-20-10 ” model of leadership development. There was even a requirement that every employee received 40 hours of training.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 7, 2014

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2015

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. With some of these other jobs, you can leave behind the workload and take some time out. Let’s flip over to the bright side of the coin: It’s rewarding.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck helps readers get back to basics—explaining that we’re in business to make a profit (which can help us do good things). There are so many areas of our lives where we can feel isolated, personally and professionally.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. Where there is disagreement there is an inherent potential for growth and development.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

One of the most common leadership development questions that I hear from executives is, "Why does succession planning feel like such a waste of time?" Here are some of our thoughts on how to make leadership succession a more relevant process in your company. Jim is the former CLO of three major companies.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

An enterprise business model was developed that takes in all the processes across all the business areas. The CFO owns a couple. Processes are categorized by a Business Cycle (end to end business process) which are “owned&# by a majority of non-financial senior leaders.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The CFO will care about profits. The CFO might be interested but would wonder how profitable those sales will be. He’s the managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a leadership development training firm. I’m making a pitch for entering the Italian and German markets no matter who my stakeholder is.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe your CFO is a family friend. N2Growth has been one of the top leadership development firms and one of the fastest growing executive search firms on the planet for 4 years running. Their organizational culture happens by default. Leaders know that building a culture by design is critical to business success.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2012

Their foundation program is a strengths-based leadership development system based on their bestselling The Extraordinary Leader book. He’s one of my leadership development heroes ! 2. Strengths-Based Leadership Development — Zenger Folkman is on the leading edge of this exciting and pivotal movement.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Focuses on business development and implementation of new business plans across the Region. University Leadership Development Professionals. Associate Dean, Leadership Development and Clinical Professor of Management, Northwestern. Led West Point’s Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership.

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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.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

Too often we leave the worries and cares about money to the CFO’s office. Of the three P’s listed above, the one that typically receives the least focus by product managers is profits (or perhaps more clearly stated, revenue ). 2 Responses Leadercast , on July 12, 2009 at 7:39 pm said: I totally agree with your three p’s.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Additionally Jackson now had to attend the Executive Briefing Meetings where the CEO, COO, CFO and all the General Mangers from the other Manufacturing areas of the plant met weekly to find solutions and update status on various projects. While adding value by guiding any or all of them into alternative paths when necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Half are C-Suite level executives, meaning that they serve as CEO, CFO, COO or the board of directors at a company. Gender Hiring Leadership development' The study by EY Women Athletes Business Network and espnW surveyed more than 400 female executives in five countries (20% were U.S.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

He spent two years as the CFO of power and automation company ABB, from 2002 to 2004, before returning to Shell as CFO. The main driver for me was to be CFO of a quoted company. Should your leadership development systems at least consider cross-boundary experience as an option? I wanted that experience.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

One CFO I know managed finance for a spin-off firm when it went public and then returned to the parent company in a corporate position. Another CFO led finance for multiple units so he could gain a breadth of knowledge across the business before becoming the corporate CFO.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

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. “I did talk to that leadership development firm last year,” he said. I’m the CFO and he’s in charge of sales. “You’re surprised?” Lance sighed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2015

Distefano : Over the last number of years we’ve made numerous acquisitions in talent development and leadership development, and [that led us to] acquire more datasets and databases — almost 50 years worth of data for executive levels. How does an algorithm take that variability into account?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

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. Integrate leadership development into the work itself.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Much has been written about the importance of measuring the impact of leadership development programs or systems. External perception can be measured by awards, such as CEO Magazine “Best Companies for Leaders” and hundreds of individual leadership awards (CEO of the Year, CIO of the year, CFO of the Year, etc…).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A new study by The Bridgespan Group, based on a survey of more than 400 nonprofit C-suite executives and dozens of interviews, surfaced this surprising finding and discussed how to address this leadership development deficit. Some leaders fear that their leadership development investments will walk out the door.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Take Jim, a front-runner CFO candidate for a leading medical device manufacturer on the verge of an IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

And yet most business schools and leadership development programs still focus on those. That didn’t stop CEO John Stumpf from blaming employees who “didn’t get it right,” or CFO John Shrewsberry from blaming “under performers.” Consider the Columbia and Challenger space shuttle disasters.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Make sure the program has a senior sponsor and is integrated across the company, ideally in the corporate university or leadership development departments. At Allianz, the program was initiated and supported by the company CFO. Take Allianz, a German financial services company.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer. Internal Candidates Are Regularly Tapped to Fill Open Roles.

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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. Rather than wait for an opening, they troll for talent both inside the organization and externally to find people to add to the team when the time is right.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Prior to his academic career, he had been in the corporate world, holding a CFO position at a retailing and manufacturing company and working as the vice president and manager of the commercial lending division of a large bank. It showed him that Margaret was both thoughtful and serious about her career.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

” The company mainstreamed both gender and culture training into all its leadership development programs. “There is no way for companies to become truly global players if their leaders haven’t learned the 21 st century leadership skill of inclusion. Our CFO is now a great asset to the company, in many aspects.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Employees and other constituents should expect HR to hold leaders accountable for fiduciary and strategic risks, just as a CFO would be expected to hold leaders accountable for a risky pattern of using corporate funds or resources. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

It does require that leaders reach across functional boundaries, but thats different than simply placing compensation and benefits under the CFO. Retooling HR makes organization leaders smarter by applying their existing sophistication about finance, engineering, operations and marketing to HR and talent decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. In addition to leadership development programs being used to help leaders “go digital,” these programs need to reflect the new realities of the digital and democratized workplace. Expert Coaching.

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