Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Learn more about RLI here. Beth recaps, “Do you sometimes have to work with a colleague whose pace is faster than yours? I’m not sure what to do since I am new on the team and don’t want to get a reputation early on for being difficult or refusing to do work. Thank you all. Let’s Get Started.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Anne writes, “You’re flipping your lid because you and all other human beings are designed to do exactly that. Bill Treasurer of Giant Leap Consulting provided 5 Strategies to Address Conflict as a Manager. Christopher summarizes, ” Freedom, power, and choice come to us when we pursue what we truly want.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Guest Post By: Rania Stewart, senior product manager with Peoplefluent.com. Learn more about Rania at the end of this post. Despite that poor showing, some companies are doing right by women and minorities to promote, encourage and support career growth. Take a quick scan of the managers and company leaders.

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Career Company Software Handbook 247

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Learn more about RLI here. Beth recaps, “Do you sometimes have to work with a colleague whose pace is faster than yours? I’m not sure what to do since I am new on the team and don’t want to get a reputation early on for being difficult or refusing to do work. Thank you all. Let’s Get Started.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 201

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

Before starting as CFO, I repeatedly scanned through my leadership qualities, considering how I would present myself to my new colleagues. How do I provide the appropriate amount of guidance to my team?” “How will I know if I am being effective?”. IQ in isolation does not indicate strong leadership potential.

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P&L CFO Sharpe Finance 58

Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

The leading candidate is the scheming CFO played by Frederic March, a passionless, colorless bean counter groping for power, but with no vision beyond increasing dividend payouts to stockholders. Overcome the fear of failure so you can do the right thing rather than the thing you believe others expect you to do.

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Charisma Leadership CFO Learning-by-Doing 222

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 26, 2015

is a man who can persuade people to do what they don’t want to do, or do what they’re too lazy to do, and like it.” If we can be generous enough to overlook the sexist element of that quote, and disregard for a moment the notion of labeling anyone as “lazy,” we can learn a lot from the crux of Mr. Truman’s insight.

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Short-term CFO Long-term Learning-by-Doing 120

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When you’re doing all the talking and pushing, you’re the rock or the stone. I looked him in the eye and smiled and put out my hand to shake his hand, and I said, “Hey, how are you doing?” This is a perfect example of the power of a be-like-water strategy. How can you do this? To be like water, relax. I wasn’t afraid.

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Open-book CFO Learning-by-Doing Audience 99

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

I spent more time meeting and less time actually doing. I have learned over the years to make meetings meaningful and productive, but it has become a developed skill over time. Why do people call meetings that aren’t prepared? Why do people call meetings that never needed to take place?

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

If you are unsure or unclear about one or more of these connections, talk to your people and LEARN. What is the competition doing and how do you master the game of chess with them every day? How do you grow your direct reports, your staff, and your organization through motivation? Who are the key players? Smile or Die!

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CEO Development Licensing Motivation 236

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. PATRIK STOLLARZ/Getty Images. But they don’t know how to get there.

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Power Management Diversity CFO 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% What do you think about the lack of women in the highest-level executive positions in large Canadian companies? Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% in the prior year).

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

Self-promoting divas and power-hoarding executives destroy organizational trust. Diva-style leaders who ignore that mordant reminder of humility are unlikely to build anything that lasts longer than they do. The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

 Jung has been credited with turning the once ailing Avon around and has appeared on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business for several years. She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

Successful companies establish a product management/marketing role (or group), empower them with the ability to make decisions, and hold them accountable for their actions. — The Product Management Perspective: As a product manager, do you feel responsible for the success of your company?

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Succession CFO Ethics Taylorism 133

Building Personal Strength

MAY 7, 2010

Napier himself was recently included in Forbes' "15 most powerful CEOs under 40." My next-door neighbor is a manager at Rackspace, so I continued reading. He wasn't done learning. If you want to be a business nerd and go learn from the masters, that's what I got." In 2000 he accepted a job as CFO at start-up Rackspace.

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CEO Development CFO Banking 90

Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

← Putting a SLANT on sabotage Fast Friday with David Coverdale, Whitesnake → Oh dear Mr. Clark… can’t you do better than that? Gee Mr. Clark, couldn’t you do a little better than that?? And, I had to wonder, how motivating did Colleen Johnston, CFO, TD Bank Financial Group find that comment?

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CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In return, these 15 would ‘pay if forward’ by doing the same thing for 15 others, for free. I was inspired to do this by the many great teachers and leaders who have so generously helped me – without ever asking for anything in return. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. 100 COACHES.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Uncover Effective, Expert Personal Brand Statement Examples​ What do Rand Fishkin, Charlie Puth, and Martha Stewart all have in common? While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. What type of impact do you want to make?

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

David: Who are you and what do you do? I’m a law professor at University of San Diego and I am the author of Talent Wants to be Free: Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding. This is a full transcript of LDRLB episode 0508 an interview with Orly Lobel. ORLY: I’m Orly Lobel.

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

And when everyday crankiness is exacerbated by performance problems, then the merely grumpy can become disgruntled former employees out to do damage to the team. This has become a favorite management insight as I advise bosses and boards. The former CFO did not go quietly. Don't give them power. Don't adopt an angry tone.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Cooper Learning-by-Doing 15

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 12, 2010

Why rock the apple cart and give Ricardo some coaching on better ways of managing his sideways relationships?? The CFO, who is the named successor for the Prez, is Ricardo’s #1 detractor. And especially don’t underestimate the power of your peers. So, what bridges do you need to repair today? Happy leading!

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Career CFO Blog Godin 34

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

If you are sitting in a job interview and hear the words "dotted line reporting," you have just encountered the world of matrix management. Lawrence say they cause all kinds of "pathologies" including: "tendencies toward anarchy, "power struggles," "navel gazing, and decision strangulation.". Davis and Paul R.

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Management CFO Human Resources Report 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Research we conducted at VitalSmarts shows that 97% of employees readily admit to having a “career-limiting habit” — some behavior that will forever hold them back, unless they can learn to change it. Consider the example of a CFO we worked with who had his heart set on landing the CEO job when his boss retired.

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CFO Motivation Incentives Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

Yan Wang, the former CFO of VitalSmarts, didn’t survive Mao’s China by taking outlandish risks such as questioning those in positions of authority. As our CFO, she did impeccable work with the highest ethical standards. She fumbled around the issue until Al said, “So what are you suggesting I do, Yan?”

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Planning CFO Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Common wisdom says that the former attend elite MBA programs, land high-powered jobs right out of school at prestigious firms, and climb the ladder straight to the top, carefully avoiding risky moves. They do it by making bold career moves over the course of their career that catapult them to the top. John Holcroft/Getty Images.

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CEO CFO P&L Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters. Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business.

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Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. The compliance-oriented risk manager of a failed U.K.

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Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

“I’m absolutely convinced that the evolving balance of the top management team is a key factor in our success and our ability to change,” Feike Sijbesma, the 57-year-old CEO of Royal DSM, the $8 billion, global company active in health, nutrition and materials science, told me. How did he do it?

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Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

The CEO wonders how you spend your time, the CFO wonders how you spend the company’s money, the sales folks think you’re too conceptual, too abstract, and not sufficiently focused on the immediate business, and the production and supply chain guys just think you’re full of hot air.". So what can marketing do to regain respect?

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Supply Chain Real Estate ROI CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

And we have figured out why: analytics forces changes on the C-suite that the CEO has to anticipate and manage, but many don’t. These forces must be understood and managed for the entire initiative to succeed. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics. CEOs must anticipate this reaction.

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CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

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. “So what do we do with this info?” Clearly I’ve got to do something, though. I know that Ahmed and Damon aren’t mates, but I do expect them to be civil.”

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

Forces pushing in the other direction — toward hyperspeed — are powerful, of course. All of this took time, but he wanted to do everything possible to prove to the board — and to others in the company who had been passed over — that he was the right choice to be the next CEO.

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Supply Chain CEO Kahneman Self-aware 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Enter “Albert”, a digital marketing platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI). I met the team at Albert (formerly known as Adgorithms) while I was doing research into artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted. Insight Center.

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Retail Audience Budgeting Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

At PwC, we learned a powerful lesson in how to engage our corporate antibodies. We learned it through our experience with an internal contest — "PowerPitch" — in which we challenged everyone in the firm to submit a business brief proposing our next $100 million opportunity. How did we do it?

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Innovation CFO Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Algorithms, run on ever faster computers, can do amazing things with that information, from detecting patterns and making predictions to solving complex problems. That realization creates more anxiety than insight into what to do. Can it do so at the speed of a start-up? On both counts. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How talent management is changing. Similar to what we’ve learned about creating cultures of innovation, it takes more than a handful of leaders contributing creative brilliance; it takes leaders driving the focus on and readiness for change that going digital requires. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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