Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Lisa Kohn of Thoughtful Leaders provided Vulnerability is Not a Dirty Word, it’s a Leadership Skill. ” 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. ” You can find Wally on Twitter at @WallyBock.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership IAS 269

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

In order for any change to occur – whether it’s a decision to purchase a product, or an implementation to add new technology – whatever touches the ultimate solution must buy-in to the change. In 1983, in London, I started up a body shop/recruitment company to support the ‘new’ language and ’4GL’ support technology called Focus.

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Case Study Technology Resistance Project 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

have a formal meeting with VPs of Sales and Marketing and the head of Technology (the 4 of you make up the foundation of the Buying Decision Team (BDT)) to discuss ideas to move forward and upgrade your site, including bringing in a web design vendor. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department). She opposes hiring external vendors.

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CFO Consensus Budgeting Brand 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

He was President, CFO, General Counsel, and the second largest shareholder of PDS Tech prior to its purchase by AKKA Technologies. Most of all, be patient and relaxed. Be like water. About the Author. Cash Nickerson is chairman of AKKA North America’s Business Unit.

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Open-book CFO Learning-by-Doing Audience 102

Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2014

Interpersonal communication skills are central to the fabric of our society and quickly becoming a lost art. In today’s fast-paced frenetic world, timeless people skills are not being taught and as a result, next generation leaders are massively disadvantaged.

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Consultative Skills CFO Competitive Advantage 56

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

link] Posts about Interpersonal conflict and dealing with people as of January 4, 2009 — Persuasive Communication and Life Skills [.] Thanks for commenting and best wishes for continued success. most difficult people ever, udang kecik also want to ber-lansi.Love my colleagues.

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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 295

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Modern leadership may be as much about facilitating strategy through hiring, training, technology, and focused tasks and goals, as it is about face-to-face interaction. Clear and meaningful tasks, goals, and technology tools that support the organization''s direction can supplement interpersonal leadership.

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Skills Leadership CFO Technology 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road. Have they been fudging their research for years?

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2018

It’s also one of the hardest skills for a new manager to learn, in part because — unless you’re working at a very fast-growing company — you typically don’t get a lot of practice with it. Or perhaps the solution lies in better application of technological tools, rather than additional people.

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Learning Curve Management CFO Delegation 13

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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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

She changed industries from private equity investing to technology; she changed geographies by moving from New York to San Francisco; and she changed functions from M&A and investing to HR. Their application of diverse business skills to the role. The personality that embraces risk is best illustrated by Reses.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

They''re using these tool and technologies to add value to existing processes or, indeed, to create new "just-in-time" processes (and programs) that the C-suite and other senior managers had never envisioned. observed that technology had fundamentally changed how America''s special operations command managed its special forces warriors.

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Media Power CIO Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

But massive disruptions in business models, technology, and the work force have been throwing up massive new challenges for CIOs and other technology leaders. Consequently, CIOs and business leaders with a technology focus face more cacophony and challenge than ever before. Understand the three organizational building blocks.

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CIO Succession Fast Follower Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

At one point, the CEO indicated that he would know that the right shift had occurred when the CFO, chief strategy officer, and other C-level leaders were seeking the CMO’s advice on strategic business problems. “I needed to earn the right to be invited into key, firm-level strategic decisions.”

CFO 8

CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But given that today's CMO is often the main connection between the consumer and the company, a strong relationship with the CIO can allow her to leverage technology to better understand those customers. And new technology can integrate these disparate sources of customer-related information. Find Common Ground.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

The technology company, Alentix*, was doing well and growing annually at the rate of about 15%. They''d all read innumerable books on leadership, taken leadership skills assessments, and attended multiple training programs — including executive leadership programs at top business schools. But its European division was struggling.

Leadership 10

Leadership Committee CFO Learning-by-Doing 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Their attitudes, communication skills, and style of service are what your customers are going to associate with your business. Use technology to provide quick, efficient customer service. Be sure your employees are providing consistently great customer service. Provide special training for frontline employees. magazine.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Perhaps your manager had your job title a few years or months back, or your new CFO recently transitioned into the role from heading the accounting department. Trends like these suggest that management has visibility into their employees’ skill sets and takes an active interest in monitoring their progress and professional goals.

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Career Company Software Handbook 247

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The digital work crisis is this unnerving pace of technological change, complex global networks, and lists product and service variation in almost infinite work streams, a whole tone of digital distractions, and fundamental access to more data than humans can handle. And this is the digital work crisis. Think about that, Angelia.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

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.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Stemberg turned to Basil Anderson, who had tackled similar challenges as CFO of Campbell Soup and Scott Paper. Make sure the critical skills don’t already exist in-house. The latter was a capable strategist with relevant insight into digital technologies — the most pressing strategic issue for the company at that time.

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

This occurs when the founder’s leadership skills hit a limit, inhibiting the ability of the company to go to the next stage. The history of internet-based technology platform businesses shows that in the growth phase, rapid losses of position are possible.

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CEO IPO Energy COO 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Whatever skills and traits have made you successful at work (Is it organization? Get enough people on the team, and make sure their skills are complementary. The same kind of technologies that enable you to compete at work — the calendars, the shared work tools — should be used at home. Creativity? Resilience?

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Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. The hunt for such talent is taking place in the world’s hottest market for advanced skills. Information & technology Leadership' Securing analytics expertise.

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Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Being transparent about the level of expected change and the different skills executives will need to manage the change gets the dialogue above the table. This is about more than technology. As one financial services CFO told us, “Our mental models were so rigid that even how we thought about data itself needed to be challenged.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 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

JULY 14, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. But consider the organization itself as a platform, connecting people who have ideas, skills, and work with the people who need them. The business press tends to focus on “pure-play” platforms like Facebook, eBay, and PayPal. But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

I have learned over the years to make meetings meaningful and productive, but it has become a developed skill over time. It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These fears aren’t unfounded: managers across industries have cost targets and technology enables lower-value tasks to move from people to machines. But we believe an obsession mainly on technology’s potential for cost-cutting is misguided. Any CFO will look at multiple ways to reinvest financial capital.

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Efficiency CFO Technology Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Chief "Innovation" Officer: Looking for disruptive technologies to drive innovation. Research focused on the careers of 14 highly successful CIOs found that, beyond the skills needed by all C-level executives (an extensive network, emotional intelligence, leadership, etc.), Why Can''t a CIO Be More Like a CFO? focus and vision.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Cyber attackers don’t need to have advanced hacking skills to break into corporate networks; they just need to know how to trick people into opening attachments and clicking on links. But I believe they are also the best defense, if they are given policies that are easy to follow and not too numerous and complex.

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FOB Guidelines Letter Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

If your strategy relies heavily on aggressive M&A, for example, do you really want a CFO who doesn’t command a salary higher than the norm? Applying them broadly without reference to your talent strategy could make it impossible to source or retain the people you need to achieve goals.

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Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

I did team-building activities, I stayed at the front of the room throughout the meeting, I took myself out of the meeting completely, I taught skills critical to the meeting like communication and team dynamics, I had the CEO run the meeting, I took the CEO out of the meeting completely, and dozens of other tweaks. Coming from him?

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CFO CEO Hotels Strategy 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work. As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8