The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As equality has risen up the corporate agenda in recent years, a growing number of companies are creating a dedicated leadership role to focus on diversity and inclusion, with around half of S&P 500 firms having a chief diversity officer. They also believed these qualities were the most important for successful EDI leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

He opened the dialogue, saying he and his leadership team had put a lot of thought into where they want to take their bank, and the vision they committed to was to deliver top decile ROE, ROA and topline revenue growth: a quintessential example of focusing on effect, not cause.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 23, 2023

In an earnings call on Tuesday, UPS CFO Brian Newman reported that the company decreased compensation and benefits by $205 million in the second quarter by eliminating 2,500 managerial positions annually. At a Tuesday earnings call, Donald Bassell, CFO of ARKO, a convenience store operator, reported that personnel costs had increased 6.5%

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

They call it the CEO test because the intensity and consequences of these challenges grow as you move into higher levels of leadership. They believe that “to succeed in a leadership role, you have to achieve a certain threshold level of proficiency in each of the skills” highlighted in these seven tests.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. What are today’s most common leadership mistakes? Thank you all.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

That leads us to Conaty and Charan’s first principle of the talent masters: The leadership team understands that the top priority for the future is developing the talent that will get it there. Fill leadership roles based on measured performance rather than just rough judgments and personal considerations. Like us on Facebook.

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Development Charan Leadership CFO 284

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

However, four main steps are proven to be effective: Step 1: Leadership alignment. Step 4: Operations alignment. Failed transformations represent a considerable setback and widen the gap between a business and its customers. Step 2: Culture alignment. Step 3: Strategy alignment. And why is that?

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 20, 2012

The company has been a role model of servant leadership since its founding by Herb Kelleher (and others). During the financial earnings call, CEO Gary Kelly , CFO Laura Wright and Executive VP Robert (Bob) E. Jordan reflected the company’s commitment to servant leadership. Improved Results by Acquired AirTran.

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Airlines Leadership CFO ROI 203

N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2014

Another common complaint about Business Review Meetings is that nearly always the time gets hijacked with discussions on day-to-day operating or tactical issues, especially when we have a room full of engineers turned managers; they quickly dive down into trying to fix the problem right then. How effective are your business review meetings?

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. What are today’s most common leadership mistakes? Thank you all.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Ross Jeremy Hope Martha Heller Operations versus Strategy Oscar Wilde Peter Weill recruiting Reinventing the CFO: How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles and Add Greater Value Successor The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership'

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

Sit In with the Front Liners – In our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program , we have high potential leaders shadow senior leaders for a day. So a senior director in operations might hang out with the company CFO for the day or a VP in IT might sit in with the CEO. The leadership team members didn’t lecture or drone on.

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How To CFO Teamwork Learning-by-Doing 157

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. Senior leaders and staff benefit from enhancing their technical knowledge with natural and learned behaviors like empathy or leadership. Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO). To accommodate the escalating speed of change and plans for the future, hire a new type of CFO.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward. Click here for more information on The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward. You just finished reading Complimentary Resource - The CFO''s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward ! by Ultimate Software. Find out how in this quick guide!

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But more CEOs rarely understand the true position of their CHROs, let alone giving them the necessary backup to operate in the required capacity. The HR is supposed to be a true partner to the CEO, just like the CFO. This breeds dissatisfaction of CHRO roles and HR functions in general. That’s absolutely wrong.

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CEO CFO McKinsey Human Resources 63

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

an operational strategy consultancy in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lars Sudmann, former CFO of Procter & Gamble Belgium, TEDx presenter, leadership and board advisor, and executive coach, believes that companies should provide consistent feedback to all of their employees. He also extols the virtues of self-leadership. “A

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Leaders of small and medium size businesses (SMBs) often think their size lets them operate under the radar, as less attractive targets to bad guys. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? But, actually, their lack of robust security strategy and resources make them easier to penetrate. An excerpt is below. His new book is Tech Debt 2.0™:

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 99

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. In this post, I compare the ineptitude of BP against the leadership of Rudy Giuliani during a much bigger crisis. But as the year closes, I realize that I’ve posted 54 blogs.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Operational - Know how the organization works inside and out. Sit at home and map out your operational chain from start to finish. For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. And, you operate in a fishbowl. Leadership involves uncertainty. Leadership is messier that being the founder. Here’s an example.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I also truly appreciated some of the business practices that leadership followed that I have missed in other organizations, including ones highlighted in McCord’s book. At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

The firm might have relied on their rolodex to place a CFO in New York City, but this doesn’t mean they can do the same and find you a candidate in Chicago. Meanwhile, fly-by-night operations can sometimes get lucky – as they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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Execution Chief Financial Officer Industry Strategy 213

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

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. These charts tell you where employees currently are, but not where they’ve been or where they’re going next. Potential Successors.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Knowing the communication/leadership style of your coworkers can help you better utilize their skills and contextualize their input. 4.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

The CFO owns a couple. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I am married, have two daughters, and a dog named Edgar the Leadership Pug who exemplifies the importance of relationships to great leadership.

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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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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 282

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. With the right ‘business operations’ in place, your company will achieve success: People: In any company or organization, the real assets are the people. People come first.&#

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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). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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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. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 13, 2017

After all, I had earned it, having just finished a 28 year run as a CPA, cable company VP of Operations, football stadium project manager, VP of Development for another cable company, and finally, a cable company SVP of Operations. They kept the “fire in my belly” every single day I stepped into the leadership arena.

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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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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

But this makes the still lingering CMO-CFO disconnect even more significant, as both executives are now stewards of that critical corporate data. As the CMO, I can say that a big part of trusting Gene (CFO) was that he not only demonstrated a passion for marketing, but a genuine interest in helping our department with his finance expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world. Recognize that a diverse leadership team delivers superior long-term performance. Diversity Multinational Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

The former CFO did not go quietly. Meanwhile, the CEO and new CFO had to raise capital and revenues to make up for the shortfall, which the disgruntled former CFO blamed on everyone else. They need to see that you operate by principles. He rallied friends who sent emails to prominent customers about his grievance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

Every organization has a slightly different framework of expected experience, but I like to look at this through the lens of strategy and operations. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

Certainly we know that heads of finance and HR tend to move around a lot more because the skills are very transferrable, and in fact it looks better for an HR executive or CFO to show a breadth of industry. Insiders are much more likely to replace the COO, for instance, while outsiders are more likely to replace the CFO.

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