Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A number of them have brought me back to work with them again as they move to their next level like from CFO to COO or, in another example, several times over the years as the leader moved from VP to SVP to business unit president to, finally, CEO of his company. Frankly, some of those went really well and others were just so-so.

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Development Long-term Workshop Learning-by-Doing 241

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shared Bell Labs Designing a New Phone System Using Idealized Design. In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company. Then it’s no surprise that you’re not moving up in your career.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 331

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. This critical alliance needs and deserves much greater analysis and application.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative. In the high potential development program, we took participants to other locations and gave them a chance to learn more about a new business unit. Lesson: You want people to think like an owner?

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CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shared Bell Labs Designing a New Phone System Using Idealized Design. In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company. Then it’s no surprise that you’re not moving up in your career.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 201

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

All managers want to hire people with discipline, determination, and drive. 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. Women executives are no different. We still have a ways to go.

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Sports COO CFO Participative 16

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

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. " 12 hours ago #adweekcdn #genesimmons lesson in what can go wrong with interactive audience participation. Happy leading!

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Career CFO Blog Godin 34

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It's difficult to get senior executives who have been successful managing a particular way to realize that they need to change their approach. As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. Getting the CFO on board is key.

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Finance CFO Budgeting Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

The key is how we manage our biases. In a recent performance management summit we ran with over 100 large organizations, 57% of them said they weren’t taking any actions to address bias in performance reviews. Research has found that several biases come up again and again when managers are evaluating a team member.

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Performance Review Review How To CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Zabeen Hirji, CHRO at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), grew up in retail banking and operations management roles before moving into HR. Employees responded enthusiastically (there were over 20,000 participants), but the lesson is not that she got a big win — it’s that she was willing to risk failing.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our work with clients across dozens of sectors over more than five years, we have found that the strongest CMO/CFO partnerships develop when both parties undertake five actions: 1. CMOs need to start building this relationship by having a clear understanding of what CFOs expect.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

In the traditional view of executive coaching, an executive, with her boss’s participation , takes personality assessments, receives 360-degree feedback , and creates and implements a development plan designed to address performance gaps, optimize her contribution, and prepare her for new responsibilities. Redesign the org chart.

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360-Degree Feedback Execution Real Estate Executive Coaching 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite. 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.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The benefits of the front-line driving improvements include pride of ownership that sustains the changes, less worry for managers about whether the changes will be adopted, and reduced costs for outside consultants. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

They do, however, have to be managed intelligently. 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

MARCH 19, 2015

Unlike his older brother, however, Charles has stayed and manages to survive and thrive. As one of our clients, the gifted CFO of a large manufacturing company, said when he quit the business, “I can’t continue going through life always being the younger brother.” Participate equally. Create healthy silos.

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CFO Retail Follow-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The benefits of the front-line driving improvements include pride of ownership that sustains the changes, less worry for managers about whether the changes will be adopted, and reduced costs for outside consultants. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 11

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

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. The payoff?

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 13

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

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

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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CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

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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Goleman How To Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 19

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

We learn who we are through what people say to us and about us," says Kathleen Reardon, a professor of management at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and author of Comebacks at Work: Using Conversation to Master Confrontation. What the Experts Say. And chances are that you sometimes perpetuate it too.

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Reputation Case Study Information CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Let’s see what happens when we connect them rather than manage them — that is, focus on the links rather than the nodes. We normally think of people as something to be managed. Human capital. Intellectual capital.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Whether the questions raised are about police officers’ use of force, politicians’ use of email, or managers’ use of compensation, the answer is the same: more transparency. Instead, managers found that employees shared fewer ideas with each other, and those ideas they did share were less creative.

How To 8

How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. Leadership created an optimization office reporting to the CFO to facilitate cost reduction projects, train new team members, and document and disseminate results across the system.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 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. Meetings can be very powerful tools, but you have to plan them out long before they happen. You first have to determine the purpose of the meeting.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The current ROI debate has focused on whether one type of wellness program, lifestyle management (diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes), can reduce health care claims and lead to lower costs. Enrolling the chronically ill in disease-management programs that ensure they get appropriate care has the most potential to reduce insurance premiums.

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ROI Health Care Company Competitive Advantage 8

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. He was relying, he said, on absolutely every single person to participate.

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Innovation CFO Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

When my mother graduated from college in 1972, she interviewed at an investment bank where a manager told her that for certain positions, women were interviewed but never hired. I’ve also heard from male fund managers that they didn’t want to take on the “risk” of hiring a woman in their small shops.

Finance 8

Finance Policies Banking CFO 8

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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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8