Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Joel Peterson has been around the block serving as a leader in various roles—CEO, CFO, founder, investor, entrepreneur—and is currently the chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. But over time, I’ve learned what to do—and how to think—when things don’t go as planned.

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Leadership Entrepreneur CFO Objective 268

N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2014

Another common complaint about Business Review Meetings is that nearly always the time gets hijacked with discussions on day-to-day operating or tactical issues, especially when we have a room full of engineers turned managers; they quickly dive down into trying to fix the problem right then. How effective are your business review meetings?

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Review CFO Operations Efficiency 325

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

While HR teams complete workforce planning, they will keep an eye on auditing current talent capabilities and anticipate future skills, assuring survival and growth, rather than extinction. Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. Quick Skilling Hits as You Plan for 2021 . Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO).

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But more CEOs rarely understand the true position of their CHROs, let alone giving them the necessary backup to operate in the required capacity. The HR is supposed to be a true partner to the CEO, just like the CFO. This breeds dissatisfaction of CHRO roles and HR functions in general. That’s absolutely wrong. Conclusion.

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CEO CFO McKinsey Human Resources 63

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided Leaders Should Define More Than the Mountain Top, but Less Than the Whole Plan. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted 5-Step Plan to Developing Your Personal Brand. Implement this 5-step plan for career advancement.” Follow Chris on Twitter at @scedmonds.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

They write: “Just because the business world has always operated one way doesn’t mean it should keep operating that way. ” CFO Jon Verbeck gives us a major pointer for increasing our profits, and helps leaders understand these important elements of running a department or business. shared Work is Broken.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

The Nuts and Bolts of the Strategic Plan [link]. Strategic Plans have to start with deep strategic thought and the right conviction. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. For as long as I can remember, the person bonded to the CEO’s hip was the CFO. Why Mission Statements Suck [link].

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Blog Mission Statement Strategic Planning Brand 222

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Leaders of small and medium size businesses (SMBs) often think their size lets them operate under the radar, as less attractive targets to bad guys. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? We plan to release firmware updates that fix all vulnerabilities for all affected products that are within the security support period.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 94

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

The firm might have relied on their rolodex to place a CFO in New York City, but this doesn’t mean they can do the same and find you a candidate in Chicago. How do they plan to do that - will their recruiting team search for this profile systematically and thoroughly in a scalable way, or do they employ a “black box” approach?

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Execution Chief Financial Officer Industry Strategy 213

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Here’s why: With succession planning, managers don’t need to hold onto key employees—sabotaging the pace of these employees’ upward trajectory. Development Plan.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided Leaders Should Define More Than the Mountain Top, but Less Than the Whole Plan. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted 5-Step Plan to Developing Your Personal Brand. Implement this 5-step plan for career advancement.” Follow Chris on Twitter at @scedmonds.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 201

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Here’s why: With succession planning, managers don’t need to hold onto key employees—sabotaging the pace of these employees’ upward trajectory.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Operational - Know how the organization works inside and out. Sit at home and map out your operational chain from start to finish. For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely.

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CEO Development Licensing Motivation 238

Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

But you must also remember that any new technology you onboard will bring change to your bank’s operations—some of which isn’t welcome just yet. 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.

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Technology Chief Financial Officer Banking Chief Technology Officer 69

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Think about the Boeing Engineer evaluating a GE jet engine for a new airplane…a CIO evaluating a new Enterprise Resource Planning System software provider…or a CFO reviewing audit firms. . Domain knowledge — The B2B buyer has the expertise and experience in the offering being considered.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe your CFO is a family friend. And, you operate in a fishbowl. People know the strategy and plan to realize the vision. Their organizational culture happens by default. Leaders know that building a culture by design is critical to business success. You’re avoiding some tough calls. Here’s an example.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 201

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

It’s far from the only case of a failure to embrace a more digital approach; the larger shift to digital is changing the way every industry operates. Some industries, like photography and media, were impacted earlier. Others, like financial services, are only now experiencing this change in earnest.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

If it’s all about the operations then you lose sight of the customer. Rather than measuring marketing KPIs or operations KPIs, focus instead on the more customer-oriented journey KPIs, such as lifetime margin. Once the drivers of the costs of the journey are understood, marketing can work with operations to address them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. Every organization has a slightly different framework of expected experience, but I like to look at this through the lens of strategy and operations. Rotating around the organization gives you a balance of experience.

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CFO How To CIO Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

However, many investors seem to have concluded that the most successful companies with tens of billions of dollars of valuation today could never have justified their valuation at the start of their operation based on discounted cash flow. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly.

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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. Getting the CFO on board is key. CFO Tim Olson of ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, went through a similar conversion. Then I became an advocate. Now I know that.".

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Finance CFO Budgeting Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

The former CFO did not go quietly. Meanwhile, the CEO and new CFO had to raise capital and revenues to make up for the shortfall, which the disgruntled former CFO blamed on everyone else. They need to see that you operate by principles. Develop and announce exciting plans. Anyway, maybe you're not 100% right.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Cooper Learning-by-Doing 15

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Focuses on business development and implementation of new business plans across the Region. Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever. Former CEOs / Advisors.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our work with clients across dozens of sectors over more than five years, we have found that the strongest CMO/CFO partnerships develop when both parties undertake five actions: 1. CMOs need to start building this relationship by having a clear understanding of what CFOs expect.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

It's not an uncommon scenario , particularly in companies with strong succession plans. Here's an example*: Peter was the divisional CFO for the consumer unit of a global products company. In our case, Peter promoted one of his people to be the CFO, but reassigned some of his previous responsibilities to others.

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Management Restructuring CFO Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. . Illustration by James Yang.

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Case Study CFO Bottom-up Operations 13

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Sharon Drew explores what happens when he stumbles in the dark trying to bring his fellow managers, the internal tech team (which is responsible for the current site), and the CFO (to whom the tech team reports) on board. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®. The result? Sellers sit and wait while they do them.

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

People come from different locations to the Innovation Center for "ideation" (brainstorming), decision-making, and planning. People have taken this "picture the future" exercise outside of the Innovation Center and used in their planning activities.". They met their goals and achieved national recognition.

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Brainstorming CFO Innovation Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

” When Quinn accepted the CHRO role at Boston Scientific, her HR organization planned to implement a program even though they knew it probably would not work. Zabeen Hirji, CHRO at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), grew up in retail banking and operations management roles before moving into HR. I push leaders.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The timeline was unrealistic, so the installation took a month longer than planned. However, cash flow from operations had shifted from positive to negative, the company’s cash pile was dwindling, and the new product would demand R&D investment. Martig was a seasoned CFO with years of forecasting experience in technology firms.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

In the first, a corporate board persuades a high-performing and dependable CEO to stay longer than planned at the helm to keep a steady hand on the tiller, maintain progress, or weather an upcoming storm. In the second scenario, a planned CEO departure occurs during a time of uncertainty.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

I listened in this morning as Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer explained what they're planning to do with Apple's $98 billion in cash (pay a $2.65 What they really talked about, though, was mainly just what they're planning to do with the $34 billion in cash the company has here in the U.S. or whatever. tax burden.

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GDP How To Offshoring Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The organization replaced the budget with a quarterly forecasting and planning process. The new plan includes a rolling look back at the last eight quarters and a look forward at the next six. Determining what operational changes to make is difficult and often accomplished through trial and error. There have been challenges.

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Budgeting Chief Financial Officer Cost CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

As soon as you step into a top position at a company that needs to significantly improve the way it operates, there’s pressure to get off to a quick start. What mattered was that people were following his plan and responding to his direction, and the results were good. HBR Staff/Clare Jackson/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Supply Chain CEO Kahneman Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

GE has been steadily reducing its ratio of SG&A expense from 18% in 2011 to a targeted 12% in 2016, and in fall 2015 CEO Jeff Immelt told CNBC he planned to take out $1 billion in costs in the next two years on slightly declining revenues. ” When she sensed that the experts were not listening to each other, she intervened.

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