HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2022

The research used a system to score those 100 CEOs based on indicators such as salary relative to organizational success, CEO to worker pay ratio, and the percentage of institutional shareholders voting against a pay package. However, current inflation worries have pushed finance departments to put a halt to further hikes.

CEO 52

CEO Company CFO Proposal 52

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Without it they won't have the time or expertise required to manage the development of 10-20 executives or high potentials. A support team should consist of the head of HR, a project manager and or administrative support person, and at least one executive "coach" (or more, depending on the number of IDPs). Tracking and follow-up.

Process 227

Process Execution CFO CEO 227

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Was struggling with sales representatives and project managers turning in expense and budget reports on-time…They told me “We have tried everything and our CFO is tired to putting out fires for us.”. started by asking: What do you want the people in sales and the project managers to do? The finance team in a Health Care Company.

Cooper 139

Cooper Succession Finance Resistance 139

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO. My regret is that I did not free up my other hip for Human Resources, a group of eager young managers at the rear of the functional pecking order. CEOs must watch for that.

CEO 162

CEO CFO Human Resources Real Estate 162

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO. My regret is that I did not free up my other hip for Human Resources, a group of eager young managers at the rear of the functional pecking order. CEOs must watch for that.

CEO 116

CEO CFO Human Resources Real Estate 116

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.

CFO 8

CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

It’s usually the job of a bank’s chief financial officer (CFO), chief risk officer (CRO), or chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee tech implementation. This kind of resistance is possible across different levels of the enterprise, from upper management to rank-and-file banking staff.

Technology 69

Technology Chief Financial Officer Banking Chief Technology Officer 69

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.

Leadership Development 331

Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 331

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He explains that: Company culture is the system of beliefs, values, goals, behaviors, and the way employees feel working in the organization—from leadership style, decision-making norms, customer experience, and company policies—officially and unofficially.

Chief Executive Officer 65

Chief Executive Officer Agility Loyalty CFO 65

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

To scale you need a playbook so that everyone has clarity about the processes and systems that get stuff done. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. You’re not managing your energy well. You must concentrate on managing your energy because there are so many demands on your time, that you can’t meet them all. Get it all out.

Delegation 243

Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 243

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.

Short-term 120

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

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The arrogant CEO doesn’t value the input of line and staff management.

Blog 417

Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. These disasters have affected popular attitudes toward our entire system of free market capitalism. It’s impossible to build a high-trust organization around a caste system.

Kaplan 100

Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

B2C companies invest millions to understand the various personas, segments, demographics, and geographical nuances to help them determine how to position and manage their brands to appeal to the faceless masses. Yes, I’m a Coke advocate. In the retail category (e.g.,

B2C 95

B2C B2B Marketing CIO 95

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.

Leadership Development 201

Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 201

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The CFO will care about profits. The CFO might be interested but would wonder how profitable those sales will be. Saying “We should pilot a test of the new marketing model on our IT system” is more likely to be understood by everyone in the room – more so than “leverage our IT system.” The VP of HR will care about talent.

Metrics 50

Metrics CFO Chief Financial Officer Marketing 50

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

For example, A successful CFO is likely to have such MAPs (Motivation and Attitudinal patterns) as — strong motivation toward procedures over options; a preference for solving problems over focus on goals; and a high past time orientation that drives focus on traditions, past experience and benchmarks. Future Orientation.

Motivation 100

Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Because no one is managing the store. We all know that CFOs are accountable for the financial stewardship of the enterprise. They fulfill this role by delegating responsibility and establishing control systems such as budgets, directives, audits, and oversight to drive fiscal compliance.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

And, I had to wonder, how motivating did Colleen Johnston, CFO, TD Bank Financial Group find that comment? But, eventually, I think that your real belief system will begin to shine through. Gee Mr. Clark, couldn’t you do a little better than that?? There’s an ancient Chinese proverb that says… ‘talk does not cook rice’.

CFO 54

CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

Research created an elaborate robotic system to streamline the user experience for one of the flagship product lines. Bad management? I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. Sounds like it.

Biotechnology 41

Biotechnology Groupthink CFO Stress 41

The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2012

Their foundation program is a strengths-based leadership development system based on their bestselling The Extraordinary Leader book. What’s been sorely lacking is an integrated model that combines both “hard” management and “soft” leadership built on a base of solid research.

White Paper 56

White Paper Drucker Leadership Development CFO 56

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

If you want approval for a new project — purchasing new equipment or computer systems, applying for a patent, building a new store — chances are you need your company’s finance department on board. When the CFO analyzed it and said “No way,” the owner got another CFO. Of course not. billion.)

Finance 8

Finance NPV CFO ROI 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

We forget that without buy-in from the necessary people and policies that maintain the status quo, we face the high cost of the resistance emanating from pushing change into a system that believes that it’s fine, thanks. The systems designers were able to elicit the right data and develop the exact right design the first time with no redos.

Case Study 50

Case Study Technology Resistance Project 50

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. Matrix reporting systems are designed to keep people working together and not at cross purposes. Are your managers aligned? Getting caught in the middle might cost you your job.

Management 8

Management CFO Human Resources Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Then the family's CFO, my wife, who also happens to be a CPA, demanded to know their TCO. cost of improving the operating systems; unfortunately, the new OS could not be loaded from the internal CD drive and required an external DVD player, which cost $120. The CFO's skepticism was proved correct, and I lost all credibility.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

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.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

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.

Finance 11

Finance CFO Budgeting Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

.” Pandas look innocent, but their powerful jaws deliver a bite stronger than a jaguars’ Pandas can be painfully costly to individuals whose careers stall for reasons unbeknownst to them and to organizations and managers unable to develop talented leaders to their full potential.

Career 15

Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets offers dozens of examples to clarify precisely how buying decisions can be facilitated through the right kind of questions, including an in-depth case study of a marketing manager who recognizes the need for a better website and wants to bring in an external design team. The result?

Servant Leader 50

Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

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.

Risk Management 9

Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business. Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US.

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

Sebell (mark@creativerealities.com), who are managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc. a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. In interviews with a dozen senior managers from a large company, two particular failures came up over and over again. Create a knowledge management system.

NPV 16

NPV ROI CFO Consensus 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Warehouse automation systems are big and complicated; if they don’t work, you’re worse off than before since it becomes almost impossible to ship product. Unlike a Fortune 500 company that can spend tens of millions of dollars on external consultants to help implement such a system, this company was stingy with its IT dollars.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." Jacoway "I leverage my avid love of learning and mastery of online technology to facilitate career management for trend-setting professionals who strive to be dynamic and high achieving in their business."

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. Franklin was in the business of designing, engineering, and manufacturing climate control systems for cars and SUVs. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers.

Case Study 13

Case Study CFO Bottom-up Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2015

Executive recruiter Korn Ferry recently introduced a new system, called KF4D, to help them place better bets on talent at the top of the ladder. How tools are changing the way we manage, learn, and get things done. Hiring Analytics Human resource management' But for the senior-most executives? For C-Suite roles? Insight Center.

Execution 8

Execution CFO Self-aware Benchmarking 8