Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 26, 2015

Is that manager being honest with you when he says he never engaged in the harassment that your employee is alleging? Does the CFO of the company you’re looking to acquire really have confidence in the revenue numbers he’s projecting? Choose your words carefully.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As everyone in the US gears up to put the closing moments on a divisive political season tomorrow, I am heartened to be reminded how many great leaders there are out there, committed to helping one another be more effective and more true to themselves. Thank you all. Then it’s no surprise that you’re not moving up in your career.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

And, I had to wonder, how motivating did Colleen Johnston, CFO, TD Bank Financial Group find that comment? Clark) has to get the “bocce balls” to actually stop gassing about putting more women on the management team and actually create a succession plan that involves a rich mix of candidates (male, female, minorities) for the top spot.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

From this small spark, we examined the potential of four additional “problems” we had learned about in our medical industry research and feel we can leverage the Amalgatome into a full-fledged business platform. This is the tie that binds us and we live it every day.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

But this makes the still lingering CMO-CFO disconnect even more significant, as both executives are now stewards of that critical corporate data. We found that we shared a passion for finance, the stock market, innovation, and marketing (and, candidly, politics). But determining which sales are truly incremental isn't always easy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Some people are qualified on paper, but for political, historical, or personality reasons can’t really succeed on a given team or in a particular job. A good coach can provide an outside perspective on both of these issues, because they’re not motivated by any politics or agendas. Her boss was very supportive of the change.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Success was measured quantitatively by the firm’s performance (profit and growth) vs. that of its competitors, and also qualitatively by interviews with senior executives who were involved, but not deeply invested, in the efforts (typically the CFO). In all too many cases, the CEO devoted little time to trying to manage this dynamic.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Managers often think about their careers in terms of winning and losing. With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. Winners ascend the corporate ladder and get the praise, recognition, bonuses, and top jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

This company has demonstrated a repeated pattern of 3- to 5-year cycles where it launches a change program, takes awhile for managers to get behind it, and then more time to get it funded. Some point to politics in the C-Suite, especially to competition between the COO and CFO. They blocked each other's progress.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on. Stemberg turned to Basil Anderson, who had tackled similar challenges as CFO of Campbell Soup and Scott Paper. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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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

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. Choose the right analytics leader.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

In cautious adopters, the politics are trickier — but not impossible. CIOs who belong to the executive management team can play the strategic role that''s key to success. As a member of executive management, a CIO can serve as both a utility and a strategic adviser to the business. Reporting structure.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2015

Sema, a finance manager at the Dutch-British financial services consultancy Dirksen-Hall, had recently transferred from its Ankara office to its headquarters, in Amsterdam. This would both improve service provision globally and greatly enhance Dirksen-Hall’s ability to manage enterprise risk. It was a gigantic undertaking.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Both launched media and customer firestorms; both shook top management to its core. And the lessons learned from political uprisings can inform businesses on how to adjust to the new, increasingly transparent world we live in. million followers. Imagine you're a major bank. What can they teach us? Seize Control of the Conversation. "In

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

Managers grumbled, and the CEO wasn’t as enthusiastic as he should have been, but Greg assumed these were consequences of the inevitable resistance to change. Instead, he was told that the CEO would stay until the CFO developed the capabilities to succeed him, and Greg would be allowed to resign. Use silence.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

From a business strategist who can appear aloof and dismissive of those with less intellectual horsepower, to a general manager who aligns and inspires her region through personal connections and demonstrates genuine care for people. Management experiences grow generic capabilities that are valuable to all managers, no matter their function.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

An interview with the board of directors is standard for the CEO, CFO, and nonprofit Executive Director hiring processes, but the group interview approach is becoming more common for many other positions. Manage the meeting. If one person can’t stop talking, it’s up to you to turn her off politely.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

She said, “We all managed to make time for our executive MBAs, while still doing our day jobs. For example, a sector manager for an internet commerce organization decided to stretch her skills by forming and leading a community of marketing experts from different organizations. Career planning Leadership Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

I listened in this morning as Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer explained what they're planning to do with Apple's $98 billion in cash (pay a $2.65 It's not that the current system — the product of a political compromise in 1962 — is worth defending. quarterly dividend and buy back a lot of shares). tax burden.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

If that sounds like your manager, write your appraisal in a way that allows him to copy and paste from your form to his, replacing every "I" and "my" with "she" and "her.". Grote adds there is no shame in being political. Managers: Work to improve the process. I make sure my managers know that I take this seriously," he says.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Just when you think she's gone too far, that she must now tip into the ridiculous, she manages to redeem herself. I was giving a talk to a roomful of managers about contemporary culture the other day, and someone asked darkly what I thought of the "dissoluteness." It does not put the body politic at risk.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Like most of the big hoteliers, however, Otto owned few of those properties; instead it franchised and managed them, with the bulk of the real estate owned by independent companies that licensed Otto’s brands. Troy’s phone buzzed, and he saw it was an e-mail from Meena Nair, Otto’s CFO. No pruning necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Should you be polite and stay above it all? 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

A seasoned CFO with a sharp mind and an abrasive style, Arthur had lost his job over a disagreement with his company’s new CEO. “I hadn’t realized how much I cared, how much work mattered to me, until then,” he explained, sharing a feeling I have heard many a manager describe. No, it’s not a muse!

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Whether or not you hold the purse strings for your team or organization, this is a tough situation for managers. Most managers do, says Dick Grote, performance management consultant and author of How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals. Managers are struggling to figure this out.” How should you respond?

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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. What indicators will you track?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Lee is accused of donating $36 million to nonprofit foundations operated by a friend of the former president in return for political favors. The political scandal and ensuing election rekindled the public’s anger at the chaebol for previous misdeeds; many people feel they never properly sought redemption. financial crisis.

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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

MAY 29, 2014

In my career studying organizational behavior, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing some incredibly effective conflict management techniques. The hospital CFO was not interested in funding a mammography service that would generate unreimbursed care while the university was raising debt to build a new campus. His reply ? “I

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