Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 20, 2012

During the financial earnings call, CEO Gary Kelly , CFO Laura Wright and Executive VP Robert (Bob) E. During mergers and acquisitions it is common for companies, especially the acquired, to experience a dip in operational performance. Bucking that trend though, AirTran reflected it’s best operational results ever.

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Airlines Leadership CFO ROI 203

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Workers who adapt and grow with the organization in a time of accelerated change will be able to launch products and services that meet market needs. Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO). Reskilling and Upskilling: What’s the Difference? Hard skills require frequent updates.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

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 have become aware of vulnerabilities involving certain NETGEAR products and have issued a security advisory. An excerpt is below.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 101

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.

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CEO CFO McKinsey Human Resources 63

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Wally states: “ Great bosses know that being bossy is bad for morale, bad for productivity, and bad for them. They write: “Just because the business world has always operated one way doesn’t mean it should keep operating that way. ” You can find Wally on Twitter at @WallyBock. shared Work is Broken.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership IAS 269

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

My fascination isn’t my productivity; rather, it is the source of the idea. 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. Frankly, I wasn’t sure whether I could maintain the pace of one blog per week.

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Blog Mission Statement Strategic Planning Brand 222

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

The founding team is vitally important to the success of any startup, and indeed, some studies argue that the founding team are more important to the success of the startup than the product itself. Who would be CFO or COO? ” Entrepreneurial team formation. Assigning roles. Who would be CEO?

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Team Entrepreneur COO CFO 86

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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC). Compliance.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Eagle Hill reports that replacing a mid-level employee – including hiring and training costs, in addition to lost revenue and lost productivity – can add up to 150% of that employee’s salary. an operational strategy consultancy in the San Francisco Bay Area. And it’s costing companies a pretty penny to replace workers.

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Charan Attrition Morale Survey 229

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

John summarizes, “The basic idea of idealized design is to create a new design for a product, service or the organization based on what is feasible today (but without being limited by the constraints of the existing state). In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 331

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

in the 1980s, put it this way: “In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. With the right ‘business operations’ in place, your company will achieve success: People: In any company or organization, the real assets are the people. People come first.&#

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Succession CFO Ethics Taylorism 133

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. Seeing these connections and implications may remind you of the need to be an active learner as a leader (not a finished product). . These charts tell a more interesting and complex story.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. These charts tell a more interesting and complex story. They can be useful for you, your advisors/coaches, and board members in discussing and reviewing the readiness of your organization.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Bottom line…If you can’t avoid the crazies there is still hope…I sincerely believe productive working relationships can be formed with even the most difficult people where there is a sincere desire/need to do so.

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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 282

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? Back in the fall of 2009, Cindy, one of our customer service representatives, received a phone call that nearly made her fall off her chair.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. And, you operate in a fishbowl. How do you avoid this fate? Make the turn. The mindset and skill set for the latter is vastly different than those that enabled your creative expression.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 203

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

John summarizes, “The basic idea of idealized design is to create a new design for a product, service or the organization based on what is feasible today (but without being limited by the constraints of the existing state). In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 201

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

For years, the answer to the question “Do people really want to buy more sustainable products?” ” Surveys consistently show that we aspire to buy responsibly , and we even say we’ll pay more for environmental or socially preferable products. So why are sustainable products surging now?

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

We asked Square''s CFO and Operations Lead, Sarah Friar , for perspectives on this technology, what it means for marketers, and how to manage in the world of mobile innovation. I think ultimately we believe that the product has to sell itself. Below is an edited version of our conversation. I want us to stay in this viral mode.

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CFO Loyalty Technology Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

A strong personal brand is so much more than a memorable name or product. 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." ​ ​1.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 13, 2017

After all, I had earned it, having just finished a 28 year run as a CPA, cable company VP of Operations, football stadium project manager, VP of Development for another cable company, and finally, a cable company SVP of Operations.

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CPA COO CFO Leadership 192

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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Warehouse automation systems are big and complicated; if they don’t work, you’re worse off than before since it becomes almost impossible to ship product. BlueArc’s devices were high-end, but its management believed it needed a mid-priced product to get it through the recession. Their ability to execute. Forecasting acumen.

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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. The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly. ” Nina asked.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Jacqueline Reses, a former private equity investor who became Yahoo’s CHRO, said, “We should drive HR like a product organization that finds the most critical use cases of our customers and then builds products to solve those needs. We shouldn’t execute programs that don’t serve the business.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

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

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

But all too often, the long lag time between recognizing the need for a new solution and actually purchasing and implementing it leads to lost sales, lost opportunities, and lost productivity. Improve productivity, Enhance the bottom line… StrategyDriven Premium Subscriber Login Align Your Organization and Become StrategyDriven!

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

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. When Sarah left, Operations also was reconfigured.

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Management Restructuring CFO Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. The Texas site alone produces more energy than what Owens Corning uses across its significant Texas operations. Get early buy-in. For Owens Corning, the locations matter. Seek advice on the accounting.

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Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. What to do. What not to do. What to do.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Consider Constellation Energy, a $14 billion dollar provider of power, natural gas, and energy products and services based in Baltimore. In a similar way, some companies have implemented "daily huddles" and "rounding" as ways to bring everyone together face-to-face to review operations, share information, and solve problems.

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Brainstorming CFO Innovation Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

While many managers were developing new products and services for their own businesses, they were not leveraging innovation across the enterprise, and some were relying too much on acquisitions to drive both innovation and growth. product vs. operational) and referenced the same stages (e.g. ideation” and “rapid prototyping”).

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

A few years ago, the chief operating officer launched a customer quality initiative to improve six core processes and assigned executives to "own" each process. Some point to politics in the C-Suite, especially to competition between the COO and CFO. How can you break this cycle? They blocked each other's progress.

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