Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

And, sadly, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) reports that 60 percent of small companies are unable to sustain their business more than six months following a cyberattack. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? But, actually, their lack of robust security strategy and resources make them easier to penetrate.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 97

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

We’ve each taken on the topic of influence in leadership and are exchanging blog posts. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.”

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Cyber attacks spiked 164% in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period in 2016, entailing 918 disclosed breaches-according reports on broadcaster CNBC. Middle-market businesses often assume they’ll be overlooked by attackers, whether due to a large number of similar companies, or a lack of enticing assets.

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Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 77

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The Unaware CEO : These CEO’s will take any report or piece of information at face value.

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

Only those interested in leadership as more than mere ego gratification have a chance to build something that outlasts them. The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. When a CEO becomes a household name, that CEO may well need to get his own house in order.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Communication/Leadership Style.

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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. Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan.

Leadership Styles 78

Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

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. But even if you don’t have a team of direct reports, we are all leaders who come from different walks of life with varied experiences that shape our core values. ​ ​1.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). US News and World Report – One of America’s 25 Best Leaders. President Dartmouth College.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

CMOs and CFOs don't always see eye-to-eye. An article published in CFO.com indicates that in one study, more CMOs report sharing marketing information with their CFOs than CFOs reported receiving. As a result, we partnered in developing the marketing dashboard and figuring out how to measure marketing.

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CFO Advertising Finance Marketing 8

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.” The CMO began by meeting with her direct reports. Don Farrall/Getty Images.

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CFO CEO Agility Marketing 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

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 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. “Numbers that numb” has become an all-too-common description for performance reports in many organizations.

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Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? Rick Jensen, who left a big job in marketing to become SVP, Chief Talent Officer at Intuit, recalled a lesson he learned in marketing: “Fall in love with the problem.”

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure. Bad product reviews: One word: Ping. No iPad mini at all. His wife, the VP of HR at Apple, also left. Apple's is 13. Television.

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Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 10

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. By dodging it, you are actually doing a disservice to your direct report and to your team as a whole.

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. Where should the CAO report? That isn’t good.

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Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Since its founding just eight years ago, Uber has become one of the best-known brands in the world, has presence in over 80 countries, has market share reported at 77% in its core U.S. This occurs when the founder’s leadership skills hit a limit, inhibiting the ability of the company to go to the next stage.

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CEO IPO Energy COO 12

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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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? How well are those efforts reported to your investors? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. This is no fringe movement. The big player in the U.S.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Effective leadership and management across these areas is possible, but not without without providing CIOs with the proper support structures and instituting necessary organizational alignment. Match the CIO reporting structure to the strategic goals of the organization. Why Can''t a CIO Be More Like a CFO? focus and vision.

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CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

The dispatch included disturbing and potentially illegal managerial activities, such as Fowler’s boss telling her she could be fired for reporting the behaviors. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance. Are these acceptable growing pains?

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

It had been a long day at the company’s Birmingham, England, headquarters, and in the early evening the two were going over the evaluations of each of Lance’s direct reports. 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. Lance sighed.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

” When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. Where should the CAO report? That isn’t good.

Company 8

Company COO CFO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

With a strong, competent, and independent chair able to step in and assume responsibility (and possibly act as interim CEO), a company in a crisis that destroys its leadership is better placed to navigate the storm. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S. Take the case of BP.

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CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Eastman Kodak is the textbook case for failing to prioritize an innovation agenda; business schools around the world study the ramifications of the company’s ill-fated decision to ignore the digital photography market until it was too late. The Future of Financial Services. The Ecosystem Approach to Winning the Long Game.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

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. This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. This means managing entrepreneurs who can navigate trends and market behaviors.

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Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

And yet most business schools and leadership development programs still focus on those. They learn that organizational failures result from rigid reporting lines, “one right way” problem-solving, cultures that shoot – or specify unreasonable standards for – the messenger, and restrictive communications protocols.

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Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

People and Organization : In late 2010, GE CEO Jeff Immelt decided to give country managers P&L responsibility for all of GE in their countries and have them report to vice chairman John Rice, who would be stationed in Hong Kong. It was the first time a vice chair would be based in an emerging market.

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P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Pep Boys, a US auto parts store chain, reports in its proxy statement that customer metrics are now an important part of its executive compensation system. Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. We have all this data," one perplexed executive reported. One direct marketer learned this the hard way.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Although Nestle's consumers and "shoppers," as they are referred to, were about 80% female, only 3% of managers in the company's leadership pipeline were women. Yet the all-male leadership team had only a single Swiss national. The focus in the first phase has been on the visible promotion of women to the leadership ranks.

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Leadership Pipeline CFO Committee Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

What was so horrible about publicly traded companies that he’d consider being a CEO again, but only if he could avoid public markets? In the cover story of the latest Bloomberg Businessweek , Nick Summers reports that many IBMers now refer to what is officially called Roadmap 2015 as “Roadkill 2015.” Short answer: no.

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

With so many professional fathers and mothers depending on this common wisdom, it’s no wonder workforce opt-out rates aren’t budging and so many working parents report feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. The decision is human, and eminently understandable (what working parent hasn’t faced the same type of situation?).

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Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. For support, add metrics like issue categorization and response/resolution time to your reporting.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

There were about 10 people involved — the CEO and his direct reports — and we met for two days offsite, in a hotel, so we wouldn't be distracted. A problem in marketing might be assigned to the head of operations. I wrote that in a journal entry about seven years ago. A strategy offsite. I had prepared meticulously.

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CFO CEO Hotels Strategy 15