Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
Take Jim, a front-runner CFO candidate for a leading medical device manufacturer on the verge of an IPO. Take Denise, a talented marketing executive who has helped reinvigorate some of the world’s most iconic retail brands. Peer relationships. What ultimately cost Denise a coveted CMO job was a pattern of poor peer relationships.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 4, 2011
Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. When you ask leaders how they build a strong management team, the answers are revealing.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 7, 2011
The role had little influence : Some companies appointed process owners at middle management levels. The wishes of a functional head such as CFO, CMO, or company President won out over a Process Owner of Order-to-Cash. End-to-end process management disrupts their accustomed relationships and identity.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 21, 2017
But the ones who really understand the issue see gender balance as not just a numbers game but part of a broader, more strategic cultural shift that includes developing leadership teams representing geographically diffuse markets. Some of those searches, like the one, three years ago, for our CFO, took twice as long as normal.
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