The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2012

He became a role model, inspiration, and mentor. As I’ve gotten to know Joe Folkman and others at Zenger Folkman over the past few months, I’ve been very impressed by the high quality and high values team he, Jack, and Bob Sherwin (he was CFO at Zenger Miller) have put together.

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White Paper Drucker Leadership Development CFO 56

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Her Leader-as-Coach training received Harvard’s Inaugural Program Award for Culture of Excellence in Mentoring. Award-winning author of eight books, including: One Minute Mentoring. Facebook’s first HR hire, she has led global people programs, been an HR Business Partner, and CFO. Led social innovation at Twitter.

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Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. He gives credit to mentors who helped him. "We I got a mentor ("Lean Sensei") who became my shadow, 40% of their time through the first seven months, helping me through.

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Finance CFO Budgeting Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Nance Dicciani, to head our European operations in 1999 (first in the senior ranks in our industry to hold such a senior position); a Venezuelan (Rueben Salazar) and Korean (YiHyon Paik) to head our operations in Japan; an African-American (Charles Hill) as CFO of our subsidiary in Japan; and the list goes on and on.

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Team Diversity CFO Mentor 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. Dan knew that if he stayed in the CFO spot beyond the IPO, the microscope would be laser focused on him. He let him take the stage.

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Execution IPO CFO Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. Dan knew that if he stayed in the CFO spot beyond the IPO, the microscope would be laser focused on him. He let him take the stage.

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Execution IPO CFO Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

So, for instance, if you want a top finance job it's not enough to be the best CFO in the U.S.; you have to be the best CFO in the world. Reverse mentoring has become popular today for precisely this reason. And the competition for good jobs is fiercer than ever. Many executive searches are done on a global basis now.

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Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck helps readers get back to basics—explaining that we’re in business to make a profit (which can help us do good things). Susan Mazza of Random Acts of Leadership provided How to Find a Mentor. Susan explains, “Potential mentors are all around you.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Ethics 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Other rising leaders found a lack of mentoring and support to be most discouraging: “My plans to stay or leave change relatively frequently,” says the executive director of a youth development organization in Pennsylvania, “and relationships with the board are the primary factor.”

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Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

” Most working parents look to their networks of mentors, coworkers, and professional contacts for advice on balancing the competing demands of work and home. Invest significant time in training and mentoring a junior colleague so they can run the budget meetings without you. ” “Hire more help!”

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Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. Assume the role of mentor. She is also mentoring women, “saying yes to more people than I was able to before.” Charles McQuillan/Getty Images. “I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO.

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

A good boss provides encouragement, development, mentoring, and support, while also being fair, constructively critical, and helpful in integrating employees into high-performing teams. Eventually, her team built a portfolio that caught the interest of the CFO and the CEO, and soon she was meeting regularly with them.

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Supply Chain CFO Performance Review Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Personal objectives might range from the sublime (adopting a child, writing a book, reconnecting with a disenfranchised family member, starting a non-profit) to the prosaic (running a 10K, coaching a child’s soccer team, volunteering as a mentor.) Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm.

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CIO CFO Crisis Execution 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. Even among digital natives, adoption of things like enterprise digital tools often doesn’t live up to lofty expectations. Why does this happen? Align rewards and recognition.

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Technology Metrics Budgeting CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The CEO leaves a meeting at the office with the CFO, his daughter, and he goes home to her mother, his wife and joint owner of the business. These thriving leaders find meaning, money, and mentoring in ways not available outside family businesses. There sometimes is no separation between work and family, home and the office.

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How To CFO Execution Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Constraint Politics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

He was the CFO of their company, a software start-up with about 75 employees. “Honestly, if you could get past the, uh, personal situation here, you’d be a great mentor for her.” Nothing happened that first night. Yes, Brad had flirted. Yes, Elizabeth had flirted back. They’d had more than one drink.

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Case Study Conference Hotels COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Harry*, the CFO from one of the companies was particularly challenging; he had a caustic style, often spoke in a pejorative way, and even withheld critical information from Bruno and others. The major didn't mentor the people below him and it often seemed he was only looking out for himself.

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Goleman How To Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Scaling up comes with CFO and board pressure to gain efficiency, and the natural tendency of a business will be to squeeze customer teams. Team leads can help you further scale managers by taking on the bulk of mentoring, coaching, and quality assurance. Remember, making customers successful is a growth driver in your business.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

Ask someone you can trust to be candid — a mentor, an external coach, or someone in a learning-and-development or HR role. Mary Beth went through ten interviews over two months, first with HR, then with various people she''d be working with, and finally with the CFO. Then be prepared to challenge or reshape others'' opinions.

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How To Reputation Case Study Career 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Sophie Renou, her longtime friend and mentor and a board member at FDM Turkey’s French parent company, was in the car with her, and the two women could have used much more than a half hour to catch up. The next day, back in Istanbul, Sena met with Ahmet Ozan, the company’s CFO. ” The Risks of Not Acting.

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Case Study CEO Banking Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Back at the office, Stan stopped by to see his CFO, Carl Amirault. As he mentored both of them up through the ranks, he fostered debate between them, always telling Carl to be prudent while encouraging Stan to think big and trust his gut. Stan left the store and grabbed a Coe's hat from his trunk. in big white letters. A Prudent Path.

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Case Study Marketing Real Estate Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

And the most-successful managers must change similarly as they assume additional or different responsibilities through their careers, moving from head of sales to COO or from CFO to CEO. Are you an agile visionary? Find a structured, methodical, and disciplined deputy or peer. And empower those people to speak up and challenge you.

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Agility Balanced Scorecard COO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

She started to turn around its performance in year one, but her reporting structure was altered mid-stream, and she found herself accountable to the CFO. One veteran executive I know accepted a job reporting to the CEO only to find that her functional area had been mismanaged and was in serious financial disarray.

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Henderson Career Execution CEO 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

Women don''t get paid as much as men , and that includes at the CFO level : Even when women are initially paid more at hiring, their salaries trailed their male counterparts by 5% after two years. And we''ve got advice about how to sell your ideas to women , in a world where there are growing numbers of women with P&L power.

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P&L CFO Self-aware Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The initiatives adopted by organizations to advance women tend to include mentoring programs, networking, coaching, increased maternity leave, child care benefits, and flexible work options. Brett (not his real name) was the CFO of a major multinational. Examine Your Own Assumptions. But he did.

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Team Diversity Company Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

We collaborated with our CFO to think through the budget and prize strategy. To make them into allies, we held a series of highly personalized meetings in which we asked each person to use his or her core area of expertise to help us plan out the details of our PowerPitch initiative. Getting the General Managers on Board.

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Innovation CFO Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

If your company doesn’t offer training, Molinsky suggests seeking advice and guidance from mentors who have first-hand experience with laying off employees. The excercise helped him realize that he needed to let a significant number of them go, including the CFO — we’ll call him Michael.

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How To Case Study Reference Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. As described in Lead The Work , he had an expansive career with Shell that spanned 25 years but unlike many top leaders in the company, he had a break in service at the top of his career.

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Leadership Development Development Disaggregation Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

Men’s dominance at Kleiner Perkins is evidenced by the fact that men earn five times as much as women, according to testimony by its CFO. In this kind of atmosphere, women who advocate for women don’t tend to fare well; Pao’s mentor described her as having “a female chip on her shoulder.”

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