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Shifting Finance from Controlling to Improving

Harvard Business Review

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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You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. During one of their monthly webinars I observed, the group began by sharing photographs of their families and talking about their lives outside of work. “We kept trying.

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