Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 26, 2015

Does the CFO of the company you’re looking to acquire really have confidence in the revenue numbers he’s projecting? Repetition is a powerful tool—the more frequently a person hears something, the more likely he will be to accept it, or to at least open the door to the possibility of accepting it. Martin’s Press on March 24.

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

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If you’re a CEO with clouded vision and desire to change the view from the top it is critical that you maintain open lines of communication through a variety of channels and feedback loops. Everyone sits in open cubicles which are all roughly the same size. All good leaders maintain a connection and rapport with both line and staff.

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

If the issue, circumstance or situation is important enough, and there is enough at stake, people will do what is necessary to open lines of communication and close positional gaps. However if the issue is important enough to create a conflict, then it is surely important enough to resolve.

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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 313

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

Indeed, his research showed that “good-to-great” CEOs generally received very little attention, whether in the mainstream press or in his interviews for the book. The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. Gather the history of the organization.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

David: When you are not riding in private jets or being picked up from the airport via limo, sorry, Orly and I follow each other on Facebook and thus, she’s got a way cooler book tour than I do. What’s going on there, it’s a term that’s been used for a really long time and you sort of opened the book with a discussion of that.

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Building Personal Strength

MARCH 4, 2010

In his book Outliers , Malcolm Gladwell attempts to explain why some people are remarkably successful. Mid-morning, my friend got a call from the chopper that a “suspect” was running away in an open field. The pilot asked for permission to open fire. A dead body lay in the middle of an open field. I asked Butch.

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Loyalty Open-book CFO Restructuring 107

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

It's an extension of yourself that lingers even long after that person has left your website, book, show, or other piece of content. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." But it must be memorable to stand out in this cluttered media world.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Kelly and Bryan MacDonald), on how C-level jobs are evolving, and in my upcoming book on communication with Michael Slind[link]. They need to be open to different experiences, attuned to cultural differences, and comfortable working with a highly diverse and globally dispersed employee and customer base. So are technical skills.

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Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

Yan Wang, the former CFO of VitalSmarts, didn’t survive Mao’s China by taking outlandish risks such as questioning those in positions of authority. As our CFO, she did impeccable work with the highest ethical standards. She fumbled around the issue until Al said, “So what are you suggesting I do, Yan?”

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Planning CFO Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 8

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 6, 2010

A CEO asked me to coach his potential successor, the CFO. It didn't take long before I just felt that the CEO just didn't like the CFO. I brought it to his attention: "I just don't think you like the CFO." However, the CEO now concluded that the CFO lacked the "adequate marketing skills." The CFO was understandably upset.

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CEO CFO Skills Open-book 118

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. I’m the CFO and he’s in charge of sales. Indeed, his 360 had been eye-opening. “Because you never booked it!” “You’re surprised?” Lance sighed.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

Yet, as our images of leaders have shifted and evolved, we still seem frozen in the mindset of Dale Carnegie’s 1936 book How to Win Friends and Influence People. And beyond the general term “open-minded,” we don’t have common words for talking about degrees to which we are open to being influenced.

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Influence Six Sigma Open-book Diversity 8

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Open lines of communication – Does your company have a hotline that operates 24/7/365 and is staffed by competent individuals who know how to properly intake and triage emergency reports or concerns? How and when are audits performed that "kick the tires" on key activities?

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CEO Compliance Organization Report 240

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Betty’s draft budget is due to the CFO first thing tomorrow morning, so she sends Amit a meeting request to discuss what’s going on. Communication Book. With all that off his chest — and with Betty’s evident openness to hearing from him — Amit calmed down too. Adapted from. HBR Guide to Negotiating.

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How To Budgeting CFO Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 The retail industry is getting “reinvented,” as we describe in our new book Matchmakers. As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “ “We’re frankly scratching our heads.”

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Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Leadership & Developing People Book. If you want to be a chief financial officer (CFO), identify five CFOs who you admire or who are well regarded in your industry. Your growth process should follow the exact same path, clearly specifying where you are today and your preferred destination. Further Reading. Marc Effron.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. Many teach and some even write books. He always wanted to run a jazz club, so he opened one. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images. “I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO. Two thirds serve on public boards.

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Chinese women in powerful business positions include Wei Sun Christianson , CEO of Morgan Stanley, China ; Mei Yan , Managing Director of MTV Networks, China; and Mary Ma , former CFO of Lenovo and managing director in global equity giant TPG, who recently started her own investment fund.

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 14

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve found two things helpful in increasing influence: understanding the organization’s capacity to change and being open to outside perspectives. I need to ensure the organization embraces the great idea — and that takes influence. Sign-up for More You can subscribe to this blog and Ill come straight to you!

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Comstock is out.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

In their book in Getting to Yes , Harvard negotiators Roger Fisher and William Ury define an interest as a broad desire that a person or group of people have for something. Although the brothers were effectively the CEO, COO, and CFO, they wouldn’t talk to one another for months after a fight, not even on business matters.

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CFO Positioning COO Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

And while business has scant experience dealing with this new access and openness, political institutions have a few centuries of experience under their belts. If our audience is a bank CFO, we'll talk about a large bank on Wall Street that tackled the issue we're addressing, and how it did so," says Zaheer. What can they teach us?

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How To Chief Technology Officer Audience Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Most businesses don't even know what's going to be required in two or three years," says Joseph Weintraub, a professor of management and organizational behavior at Babson College and co-author of the book, The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Figuring out the answer to this question is not an easy task.

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P&L Committee Career Case Study 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Transparency is key, and employers should open the books, showing employees the true cost of health care coverage borne by the employer, how those numbers have changed, and the projected trajectory in the future if something doesn’t shift. .” As these studies show, the current ROI debate misses the bigger picture.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Some leaders are strong-willed and autocratic, some are open-minded and democratic, some employ laissez-faire, employee-centric leadership styles, and most fall somewhere in the middle. His newest book is Outsizing: Strategies to Grow your Business, Profits, and Potential. For more information visit www.SteveCoughran.com.

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Simon Micromanagement Leadership Styles CFO 248

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

Moonwalking With Einstein , the current bestselling book by Joshua Foer, deals with a subject close to the pounding hearts and minds of every public speaker or presenter: how to remember what to say. One CFO showed up for his coaching session at my company with his presentation written out in full sentences.

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Gordon Letter Audience CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The CEO and CFO were marching through their 112-slide presentation. Or we might be reticent to speak up, fearful of what others might think, perhaps remembering the famous quip attributed to Lincoln : "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." But it's a skill worth pursuing.

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Merton Groupthink CFO Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Consider how IBM has tackled new ways of work distribution as described in Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment , a book which one of us, Ravin, co-authored. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. Consider, for example, open enrollment at the John F.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2014

Harold was opening his car door when the phone rang again. Camilla asked, referring to Natural Foods’ CFO. “He Betty’s talking her own book, and Camilla’s a lawyer — of course she’s going to try to mediate between the parties and negotiate a palatable solution. “Let’s talk to her about this at the board meeting.”. No Way Out?

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Case Study Politics Committee Letter 9