Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Over the past decade, I organized over twenty, guide-led expeditions designed to build leadership and teamwork skills for Wharton Business School students. Although the expeditions were mentally and physically challenging, each allowed relatively inexperienced travelers to participate. Guides empower others to reach their own summits.

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Leadership Styles CFO Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 120

Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

I recently spoke with the CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing company about his new CFO who was poised to attend our flagship program for senior executives, Leadership at the Peak. She was respected by colleagues and employees, and over time had become the right-hand assistant to the CFO. No one turned a head. What can be done?

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Charisma CFO CEO Execution 65

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The publication date of this post, December 1, 2020, marks the 20 th anniversary of our leadership development company, The Eblin Group. Likewise, we’ve had around 700 rising leaders participate in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program since the first cohort we ran in 2005. Strong relationships depend on trust.

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Development Long-term Workshop Learning-by-Doing 241

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2020

Nurmohamed encouraged one group of participants to see themselves as underdogs, as underrated, as if the companies that rejected them just didn’t understanding the true value they could provide to the organization. But when the time came to talk about purchasing the company, the CFO still asked Hastings for a number.

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CFO Motivation Industry Participative 78

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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CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

And, I had to wonder, how motivating did Colleen Johnston, CFO, TD Bank Financial Group find that comment? Share this: This entry was posted in Leadership , Authenticity and tagged Ed Clark CEO TD Bank , Colleen Johnston CFO TD Bank Financial , walking the talk , lack of authenticity , womens advancement. Happy leading!

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CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

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. Only 3% did not participate in sports at any point in their lives. Its supporters dreamed of the day that participation levels would also be equal. Gender Hiring Leadership development'

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Sports COO CFO Participative 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

I looked around the room at the silent senior leadership of Alentix, all of whom had privately complained to me about Jean''s performance in recent weeks. They knew as much as anyone about leadership. The answer is deceptively simple: There is a massive difference between what we know about leadership and what we do as leaders.

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Leadership Committee CFO Learning-by-Doing 11

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

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 12, 2010

The CFO, who is the named successor for the Prez, is Ricardo’s #1 detractor. Share this: This entry was posted in Career Derailer , Career Management , Leadership , Motivation , Power and tagged bullying , Career Derailer , peers , playing favourites. So, what bridges do you need to repair today? Happy leading!

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Career CFO Blog Godin 34

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. Of course, they haven’t had a chance to think it through, but that’s the first reaction.”

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

At one point, the CEO indicated that he would know that the right shift had occurred when the CFO, chief strategy officer, and other C-level leaders were seeking the CMO’s advice on strategic business problems. “I needed to earn the right to be invited into key, firm-level strategic decisions.”

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CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

If you want to pair your managers with social entrepreneurs, here are a few things to consider: Prepare : Invest in preparing your participants in advance. Make sure the program has a senior sponsor and is integrated across the company, ideally in the corporate university or leadership development departments.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

The abridged version is that Palmisano and then-CFO Mark Loughridge came up with what they called the “investor model” or the “road map” — a strategic plan complete with multi-year goals for investment, revenue growth, and earnings growth that they asked investors to judge them by.

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The research, involving over 5,000 B2B purchase participants across 12 industries, uncovered three mistakes that undermine firms’ content marketing. Many stakeholders are commonly involved in a purchase: a CIO, CFO, head of procurement, facilities manager, and leaders of the end-user communities.

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B2B Content Marketing Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In 1992 the company was in cost-cutting mode, and, as former CFO Orry Fiume told me, it was consequently offering an early retirement package designed to reduce headcount. It assured employees that they would not lose their job as a result of their participation in continuous improvement activities. Share the Big Picture.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

We were discussing his firm’s approach to teaching leadership. ” This is a fundamental gap in leadership approaches. We still believe that the essence of leadership is about influencing others to do what we want them to do. Our leadership measures and language also illustrate this gap.

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Influence Six Sigma Open-book Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We’ve spent an awful lot of money on technology, but I still see people working in the old way,” complained the CFO of a large hospitality company. For instance, actively participating on digital platforms and experimenting with new ways of communicating, collaborating, and connecting with employees. Why does this happen?

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Technology Metrics Budgeting CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In 1992 the company was in cost-cutting mode, and, as former CFO Orry Fiume told me, it was consequently offering an early retirement package designed to reduce headcount. It assured employees that they would not lose their job as a result of their participation in continuous improvement activities. Share the Big Picture.

Attrition 11

Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

He was relying, he said, on absolutely every single person to participate. We collaborated with our CFO to think through the budget and prize strategy. Senior Leadership Follows Through. That got people going. Getting the Naysayers to Join Us. It wasn't hard to identify the most powerful corporate antibodies.

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Innovation CFO Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Chinese women in powerful business positions include Wei Sun Christianson , CEO of Morgan Stanley, China ; Mei Yan , Managing Director of MTV Networks, China; and Mary Ma , former CFO of Lenovo and managing director in global equity giant TPG, who recently started her own investment fund.

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Although the brothers were effectively the CEO, COO, and CFO, they wouldn’t talk to one another for months after a fight, not even on business matters. voting versus non-voting shareholders), participation levels (owner-operators versus passive owners), gender, and generations (senior versus next). 4) Alliances form.

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CFO Positioning COO Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Since it was networking human and relational capital, its KPIs were about participation and engagement. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot. By contrast, ZipDash was networking devices, so its KPIs were focused on data-oriented measures like latency and coverage.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

If you learn to plan, structure, and participate in meetings effectively, you will be able improve your own time management and productivity as well as that of other participants. It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

We asked study participants to evaluate organizations in which cc-ing others on email was the norm, and organizations in which colleagues were only occasionally cc’ed. Consider, for example, research I and several collaborators published in Leadership Quarterly. Would you feel trusted by that person?

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How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

At-risk people should be identified through personal health assessments and biometric testing, and encouraged — not coerced — to participate in personalized care-management programs to minimize their chances of becoming chronically ill. As these studies show, the current ROI debate misses the bigger picture.

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ROI Health Care Company Competitive Advantage 8

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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