Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Nance Dicciani, to head our European operations in 1999 (first in the senior ranks in our industry to hold such a senior position); a Venezuelan (Rueben Salazar) and Korean (YiHyon Paik) to head our operations in Japan; an African-American (Charles Hill) as CFO of our subsidiary in Japan; and the list goes on and on.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Most people come out of business schools fairly well armed with technical skills, but the softer side of management — communication, collaboration, cross-cultural intelligence, for instance — has dramatically grown in importance, and will continue to do so. you have to be the best CFO in the world. Here are five reasons.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shared Podcast: Increasing the Capability of the Organization. John summarizes, “Changing how organizations are managed makes a huge difference in people’s lives. Susan Mazza of Random Acts of Leadership provided How to Find a Mentor.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Other rising leaders found a lack of mentoring and support to be most discouraging: “My plans to stay or leave change relatively frequently,” says the executive director of a youth development organization in Pennsylvania, “and relationships with the board are the primary factor.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

” Most working parents look to their networks of mentors, coworkers, and professional contacts for advice on balancing the competing demands of work and home. Invest significant time in training and mentoring a junior colleague so they can run the budget meetings without you. Manage the village. Work differently.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

A good boss provides encouragement, development, mentoring, and support, while also being fair, constructively critical, and helpful in integrating employees into high-performing teams. Here are two quick (disguised) examples: Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known manufacturing company. Nobody likes having a bad boss.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. Assume the role of mentor. She is also mentoring women, “saying yes to more people than I was able to before.” Charles McQuillan/Getty Images. “I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO.

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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. IT management Leadership Technology' Even among digital natives, adoption of things like enterprise digital tools often doesn’t live up to lofty expectations. Why does this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

” The first step is to create a system that allows executives to talk candidly with their managers about what is most important to them professionally and personally and how their organizations might support these goals given their key work responsibilities. Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The CEO leaves a meeting at the office with the CFO, his daughter, and he goes home to her mother, his wife and joint owner of the business. These thriving leaders find meaning, money, and mentoring in ways not available outside family businesses. The crocodile brain. The rewards are different and deeper. Are you a thriving leader?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Instead of focusing on the work you have to do together, you may end up wasting time and energy trying to keep your emotions in check and attempting to manage the person's behavior. Manage your reaction. Goleman says the first step is to manage it. Do: Manage your own reaction to the behavior first. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. This won’t be a “Chief Customer Officer” or a “Customer Success Manager.” The expanded focus on the customer requires a different type of leader who can manage both the existing team, and build your customer success function. What to do.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This bias also explains why a CFO may be perceived as cheap by disposition or why a team might attribute its internal conflicts to incompatible personalities instead of resulting from organizational incentives to compete rather than collaborate with one another. Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

He was the CFO of their company, a software start-up with about 75 employees. They managed to keep the fledgling relationship secret for three weeks. He claimed he was busy with work, but it was the middle of the quarter, and no big management or board meetings were on the docket. Nothing happened that first night. The new Thai?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

What could be easier than chatting with managers you already know? Too many candidates, and hiring managers, shortchange the internal interview process; they view it as a formality and think that all of the evidence is already there. Lees suggests you ask for your manager''s advice on how to best pitch yourself for the position. "If

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

She also used them to scout for talent, keeping an eye out for young managers ready to move into more-senior positions and perhaps transfer to headquarters. The branch manager, Meryem Kartal, met them in the lobby and introduced a few staff members before showing them to her office. ” Sena needed managers like Meryem on her side.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Aubrey Merrin, the store manager, met him at the door. "Mr. Aubrey had transferred from the Coe's up in Flowing Wells, where he'd been the store manager for 10 years. When Stan started as an assistant manager in 1984, the same year Coe's went public, Terry had expected him to work harder than everyone else to prove his worth.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

Consumers expect consistent products; people appreciate consistent management. And the most-successful managers must change similarly as they assume additional or different responsibilities through their careers, moving from head of sales to COO or from CFO to CEO. They are diligent and possess resilience and grit.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In the past decade organizations have invested significant resources to try to address the gender gap in senior management. The only area where women pull ahead of men is in human resources, where they account for 71% of all HR managers. Brett (not his real name) was the CFO of a major multinational. But he did.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

Women don''t get paid as much as men , and that includes at the CFO level : Even when women are initially paid more at hiring, their salaries trailed their male counterparts by 5% after two years. And we''ve got advice about how to sell your ideas to women , in a world where there are growing numbers of women with P&L power.

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P&L CFO Self-aware Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

She started to turn around its performance in year one, but her reporting structure was altered mid-stream, and she found herself accountable to the CFO. One veteran executive I know accepted a job reporting to the CEO only to find that her functional area had been mismanaged and was in serious financial disarray.

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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

JUNE 26, 2015

Dismissing an employee is one of the most unpleasant tasks of management. Presiding over layoffs is a “distasteful part of management that many people fear,” says Laurence J. Stybel, a career management and board adviser and an executive in residence at Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How talent management is changing. Then practice and apply new behavior back on the job while instituting routines for manager, peer and coach feedback. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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