Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Often the leader is brilliant and quirky and the team is passionate and driven. Neither stereotype nor formula, putting together a team with the right personality traits can be tricky, especially given the fact that your personality plays an important role. Your CFO should be Captain America with the emotional range of a rock.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Usually, they’re being made within your executive team. Ask each person on your executive team what the vision is for your company. Then prepare to be surprised: Your CEO, CFO, and COO may very well give different answers. This, too, starts with the executive team. Where are your company’s decisions primarily being made?

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Trends Company COO CFO 350

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 23, 2020

Crisis Management: The Overlooked Leadership Skill (CFO) 9. Best Practices for Managing Virtual Teams and Meetings (CCL) 15. Leadership in a crisis: Responding to the coronavirus outbreak and future challenges (McKinsey) 7. MY CRISIS LEADERSHIP PLAYBOOK (Executive coach Scott Eblin) 8. How to Lead Through a Crisis (CCL) 16.

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Crisis Article Crisis Management Goleman 283

Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

Test #3 Can You Build Teams That Are True Teams? This test brings us to four questions: What is the purpose of the team? Who should be on the team? How will the team work together? What is the leader’s role on the team? Teams need to evolve or grow with the times they are in.

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CEO Crisis Guidelines Gordon 433

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. ” Entrepreneurial team formation. . ” Entrepreneurial team formation. Selecting the team.

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Team Entrepreneur COO CFO 89

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

They all: · Made fact-based decisions · Built great teams · Made ethics a part of the culture · Engaged listeners · Evaluate constantly · Embraced change · Inspired Make fact-based decisions At the start of each morning, Craig Ryden—the CEO of Yankee Candle—would look at the sales from the previous day in great detail.

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CFO Leadership Ethics Long-term 169

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Other situational factors applied include high information ambiguity, communication breakdowns, executive-level silence, lack of team support, and poor organizational culture. Every organization has mechanisms to address most of these factors, but not all utilize these mechanisms orderly or adequately.

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CTO Shaw Short-term Agility 389

N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology. Experience leading a large regional team. The new CxO will be tasked to define and craft strategy, make investment proposals, and defend them, so they have depth in the related sector and a brain the size of an elephant.

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Execution Company Charisma Constraint 391

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

However, when they looked at just the difference in how long the CEO and the CFO (the person in charge of the money) plan for the future, it didn’t seem to matter much. One reason might be that CFOs don’t often become CEOs later in their careers, so they might not have big long-term goals.

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Innovation Company Short-term Long-term 103

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. Secure a Team 4. Throughout it all, he says, he’s been lost more than once. Build Trust 2. Deliver Results.

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Leadership Entrepreneur CFO Objective 270

CEO Insider

JULY 28, 2022

The post Narcissistic Team Leaders – How a Lack of Checks and Balances Tip the Scale of Culture appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. Narcissistic leaders’ self-centered personalities not only disrupt organizational culture, but they can also derail an organization and leave it unviable. Let’s define narcissism. All rights reserved.

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Tips Magazine Team Positioning 118

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Retained executive search is exclusive to the search firm, which means there will not be several agencies or any internal team members working on the recruitment while the retained search firm pursues qualified candidates. C-Suite: CAO, COO, CFO, CTO, etc. Here’s what you need to know. What is a Retained Executive Search Firm?

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Execution CTO COO CFO 217

CEO Insider

JUNE 8, 2022

This increase, however, requires a larger support team. The post The Events Team Of The Future: What The C-Suite Needs To Know appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. In fact, the transition from in-person to virtual and hybrid events has increased the reach, impact, and measurability of your events. All rights reserved.

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Team Magazine Chief Financial Officer CFO 97

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

He opened the dialogue, saying he and his leadership team had put a lot of thought into where they want to take their bank, and the vision they committed to was to deliver top decile ROE, ROA and topline revenue growth: a quintessential example of focusing on effect, not cause.

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P&L ROE Metrics CFO 220

N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2014

I had the opportunity to sit with Lewis Booth , former CFO of Ford Motor Company, who along with the senior executive team, led the successful turnaround and global repositioning of Ford. Here are some of the groundrules that Ford senior team follows: Identify the problem, don’t try to solve it during the meeting.

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Review CFO Operations Efficiency 333

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

So, what was the leadership team’s response to their catastrophic screw-up? Well, the CFO John Gamble cashed in nearly $1 million of stock options, while division president’s Joseph Loughran and Rodolfo Ploder sold over $500,000 and $250,000 in company stock, respectively. No, me, either!

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CFO How To Proposal Follow-up 170

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 9, 2015

You now have to communicate to your team to get things done. This is where most C- and VP level executives fail – you need to lead with greater impact by applying emotional intelligence to manage your team. The best tool to effectively communicate is Daniel Goleman’s: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Delegation 150

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Fisher also explores ways in which the world of work is changing—and how this opens up new opportunities to accelerate the path to parity—while offering detailed descriptions of what leaders and organizations are actively doing to retain, attract, and build high-functioning teams of capable, diverse leaders.

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Succession Open-book Leadership Styles Leadership 74

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

Balance in the C-Suite Numerous studies have demonstrated that diversity on teams brings better results. He has observed in many companies that a C-suite team represents a balance of types , for instance, an introverted CEO who chooses an extroverted CFO to bring strengths to the table that he or she doesn’t have.

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CFO Education Diversity Reference 277

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 18, 2022

The study revealed that most corporate venturing programs use a two-tier decision-making process, with approval typically required for any actions from a committee that sits outside of the team itself. This is a marked difference from traditional VC firms, which can act extremely quickly once investment decisions are made.

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Short-term CFO Bureaucracy Long-term 108

Modern Servant Leader

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

My CFO just fired the 4th person he hired, within a year of hiring them. Now, his entire team had turned over 3 times in as many years. Yet, the executive team felt he was getting positive results. It was 2006. In fact, on paper, he was. The organization was stronger than ever, from a fiscal perspective.

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Servant Leader CFO Reputation Execution 214

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2020

Recently, there’s been a wealth of attempts to study that underdog narrative and its motivating effect on individuals and teams. When everyone had finished their rounds of negotiations, Nurmohamed and his team found that the underdog group came up winning solutions much more often. It was a non-starter for the CFO.

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CFO Motivation Industry Participative 128

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2013

He was clearly a high potential early on and was tapped by his CFO to create and lead the new internal audit group for a public company. One day the CFO asked him to attend a board meeting so that he could answer any questions that might arise regarding the internal audit group. His directive: answer those questions asked of him only.

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CFO Executive Coaching Talent Management Influence 237

Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

I recently spoke with the CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing company about his new CFO who was poised to attend our flagship program for senior executives, Leadership at the Peak. She was respected by colleagues and employees, and over time had become the right-hand assistant to the CFO. How to Increase Your Executive Presence.

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Charisma CFO CEO Execution 65

Mark Sanborn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Embrace Diverse Opinions: Consult individuals with different perspectives, including team members and external advisors. In Practice: A CFO might confidently project revenue figures while neglecting market uncertainties and potential disruptions.

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Groupthink CFO Uncertainty Consensus 56

Engaging Leader

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Marty has an MBA, spent many years in leadership roles at a Fortune 500 company, has been CFO of several organizations, and 10 years ago he started up a restaurant and catering business that he still leads today. Video: Are You a Dictator or a Team Captain? Engaging Leader™ Employee engagement Team leadership Why Work satisfaction'

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CFO Video Motivation Follow-up 140

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

When James contacted me in late May after viewing a webinar I conducted about how organizations can adapt to the changes brought by the pandemic, his business was embroiled in internal team conflicts and many employees either declined or were not able to go to work even when the state permitted reopenings for businesses.

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Constraint COO CFO Webinar 150

Next Level Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

So a senior director in operations might hang out with the company CFO for the day or a VP in IT might sit in with the CEO. In one of our client companies, members of the senior team each spent at least a day sitting in with the employees who staff their customer call center. The leadership team members didn’t lecture or drone on.

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How To CFO Teamwork Learning-by-Doing 157

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. Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO). To accommodate the escalating speed of change and plans for the future, hire a new type of CFO.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2020

Recently, there’s been a wealth of attempts to study that underdog narrative and its motivating effect on individuals and teams. When everyone had finished their rounds of negotiations, Nurmohamed and his team found that the underdog group came up winning solutions much more often. It was a non-starter for the CFO.

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CFO Motivation Industry Participative 78

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Teams gather successes and progress made of 2013. Teams gather successes and progress made of 2013. Teams gather specifics steps that lead to success. Teams create a chart (pie, bar, spider, ven, etc) to graphically illustrate result. 4 mixed teams. Teams will generate ?’s 3 mixed teams. 3 Dept Teams.

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Strategic Planning Planning Company CFO 132

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

Before starting as CFO, I repeatedly scanned through my leadership qualities, considering how I would present myself to my new colleagues. How do I provide the appropriate amount of guidance to my team?” “How Apparently, after bouncing around due to team conflicts, she had been asked to leave. About the Author.

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P&L CFO Sharpe Finance 58

Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

That leads us to Conaty and Charan’s first principle of the talent masters: The leadership team understands that the top priority for the future is developing the talent that will get it there. Elevate it to the same level as the CFO. When you have an organization devoted to a set of principles and values, you have a culture.

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Development Charan Leadership CFO 284

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO. You see, the “talk” of cultural strategy (we called it the credo) that hung on the walls of the offices and the plant was “walked” by the leadership team.

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CEO CFO Human Resources Real Estate 162

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Seychelle Hicks, a team manager at Silicon Valley’s Bloomreach, says her expert guide helped her learn to navigate rough terrain on the mountain, coaching and leading by example. Although she fell ill on her first guided summit attempt, she successfully returned to lead a team to the summit a year later. It’s about showing them.”

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Leadership Styles CFO Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 120

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Here is an example of a team that thought the same thing. The finance team in a Health Care Company. Was struggling with sales representatives and project managers turning in expense and budget reports on-time…They told me “We have tried everything and our CFO is tired to putting out fires for us.”. Wow…that sounds challenging.

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Cooper Succession Finance Resistance 139

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

A dedicated, competent, trusted support team. A support team should consist of the head of HR, a project manager and or administrative support person, and at least one executive "coach" (or more, depending on the number of IDPs). While it's important for the CEO to own the process, even the best CEOs will need assistance.

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Process Execution CFO CEO 227