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Technology Literacy Will Determine a CFO’s Success

HR Digest

The one thing that will majorly influence the fate of CFO aspirants is their tech skills. According to a Gartner survey of 173 CFOs in November 2020, digital investments topped CFO agendas. Being comfortable with data, technology, and cross-disciplinary collaboration was crucial to the success of CFO candidates.

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3 Telltale Signs It’s Time to Rethink Your Executive Team

Leading Blog

Stakeholders and shareholders alike expect businesses to make a positive impact on the big challenges our planet faces, such as climate change, redistribution of wealth, and more equitable ways of operating and performing. As one anonymous Fortune 500 CEO shared: My CFO started well.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology.

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The Racial Stereotypes That Underpin EDI Appointments

The Horizons Tracker

The finding emerged after several hundred recruiters and HR managers were shown a press release that announced the new senior leader in a fictitious firm. Some of the participants were told the person was to be CFO, while others that they would head up EDI.

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Leading by Cause

Lead Change Blog

In their CFO Magazine piece, “ How An Obsession with Metrics Is Killing Your Company ”, authors Alexander Van Caeneghem and Jean-Marie Bequevort , write, “The quest for financial performance and the pressure to measure can corrode organizational cultures, narrow the focus of leadership, reduce intrinsic motivation, and support unethical behavior.

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Conference Board Announces CEOs Plan to Increase Wages by a Minimum of 3%

HR Digest

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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Entrepreneurial Leadership

Leading Blog

Joel Peterson has been around the block serving as a leader in various roles—CEO, CFO, founder, investor, entrepreneur—and is currently the chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. The Administrator manages process with predictability and efficiency. What is your personal operating system?