Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Some are: Financial – This is all-important - I can’t tell you how many executives I would watch sit in meeting and clearly see they had no idea what was in front of them on our financial projections. Know this area cold. Operational - Know how the organization works inside and out. Where are the dependencies? Think holistically.

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CEO Development Licensing Motivation 238

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Old and Obsolete Infrastructure: Azeotrope, an aerospace firm in the Southeast, realized they were compromised when a number of clients complained of receiving invoices from Azeotrope that contained confidential information about their client’s orders and projects. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? An excerpt is below.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 98

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 286

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. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Especially as it relates to their actual experience and their projected needs. Make an appointment with the CFO. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! They just buy. Why did you lose the sale?

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Proposal Price Long-term Customer Loyalty 58

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. Marketing then back calculated the number of units, service contracts, and consumables that would need to be sold to make the forecast.

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Biotechnology Groupthink CFO Stress 41

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas.

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Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Unfortunately, with the focus on profit, solution placement, timelines, and commissions, the potential for true servant-leadership has been overlooked. Decision facilitation” enables a smoother, faster process that leads to a better outcome for both the marketing manager and the design firm. The result?

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” She also began paying more attention to projects that would drive future growth.

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CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

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

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. The live event could have failed in many ways; the safe thing to do would have been to back off the project.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. A charismatic CEO, imported from outside the industry, was making bold, expensive investments in new markets. What should they do? Take Boeing.

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CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 8

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. Take Denise, a talented marketing executive who has helped reinvigorate some of the world’s most iconic retail brands. Peer relationships. What ultimately cost Denise a coveted CMO job was a pattern of poor peer relationships.

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Some companies have allowed employees up to 20% of their time to work on their own projects, but I know of no company that helps leaders free up their time to work on the frontier of their jobs. Instead, once people have leadership responsibilities, their calendar gets crammed with more and more meetings and trips.

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Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. Achieving the project goal within five days requires them to balance results and trust. "The

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. Without reassurance that the initiative made good business sense, it quickly gave way to other projects that did. The leadership got impatient waiting for demonstrated results.

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. Stemberg turned to Basil Anderson, who had tackled similar challenges as CFO of Campbell Soup and Scott Paper. Like Wilson, Anderson was able to lead the senior team.

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

To reverse this, senior leadership took a number of steps. To access the fund, teams had to complete a simple two-page application about their idea, the potential market, and the value to the customer (what problem was being solved). First they agreed to shift funding from small, incremental acquisitions to innovation.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Make friends in the business development team so that you know about the big local client projects coming up and can volunteer for them early (no business travel!). If it takes a village to raise a child, your job is to build and manage that village the same way you would a project team at work. Manage the village.

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Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. These and other IT-related problems aren''t rooted in technology but in leadership failings. Accountability.

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Researchers have pointed to an array of reasons, from explicit discrimination to promotion processes that quietly favor men, but one of the most perplexing is that women themselves aren’t as likely as men to put themselves forward for leadership roles through promotions, job transfers, and high-profile assignments. times as strong.

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Execution Chief Executive Officer Diversity CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The next day, back in Istanbul, Sena met with Ahmet Ozan, the company’s CFO. “The projections look mostly good, as we expected,” Ahmet said. “The market research from Capital is promising. “I can just hear Erkan saying that,” Sophie said. “He hates change.” “So what? .

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Case Study CEO Banking Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

and the open market­ (Does a person doing this job in another company get similar pay?). “Just because someone’s killed themselves on a special project doesn’t mean they deserve more. “In a leadership position, you’re always going to have to deal with people’s disappointment.”

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How To COO Report Follow-up 8

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.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

We conducted a 10-year study, which we call the CEO Genome Project , in which we assembled a data set of more than 17,000 C-suite executive assessments and studied 2,600 in-depth to analyze who gets to the top and how. Eight months after being hired, he was offered the CFO position, leapfrogging the controller who hired him.

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CEO CFO P&L Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve recently been thinking about this with regard to how leaders can be more strategic, able to effectively execute the core of their business while remaining open to trends in the market and adapting to meet them. Markets demand that companies and people adapt and change constantly.

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Agility Balanced Scorecard COO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

We began by lining up the biggest sponsor to champion the project, identifying the most powerful naysayers to help us mitigate the risks we were about to introduce, and then systematically recruiting our general management structure to do the real legwork. We collaborated with our CFO to think through the budget and prize strategy.

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Innovation CFO Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 11

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. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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