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3 Telltale Signs It’s Time to Rethink Your Executive Team

Leading Blog

As one anonymous Fortune 500 CEO shared: My CFO started well. In many organizations, individual team members—or the entire executive team—may stagnate in their development and gradually deteriorate in their performance. Over the first two years, he accomplished a lot to put the company on a stronger financial footing.

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How to Stop Being “Them” and Start Being “Us”

Next Level Blog

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. There were pages of appreciative comments about the “what” of the conversations and the “how” of feeling a sense of teamwork, inclusion and that “we all matter.” It’s just “us.”.

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How Should Leaders Address Challenge Of Low Performers?

Tanveer Naseer

How Low Performers Affect Morale and the Company’s Bottom Line Low performers undermine the concept of teamwork. Lars Sudmann, former CFO of Procter & Gamble Belgium, TEDx presenter, leadership and board advisor, and executive coach, believes that companies should provide consistent feedback to all of their employees.

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Don’t Just Lead – Guide!

Great Leadership By Dan

Over the past decade, I organized over twenty, guide-led expeditions designed to build leadership and teamwork skills for Wharton Business School students. Perhaps that’s because the thought of guiding others to reach their own summits at work is something we can all relate to -- and wish for. It’s never about talking about things.

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4 Keys For Bringing Out The Best From Introverts

Tanveer Naseer

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. “On On the senior leadership team, you need thoughtful analysis and you need passion and excitement,” adds Moore.

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Making the Turn: 10 Warning Signs You aren’t Shifting from Founder to Leader

N2Growth Blog

Maybe your CFO is a family friend. He is also the creator of various individual and team assessments including the # UltraLeadership 360 and the TeamWork GPS Team Survey. 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.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

For example, A successful CFO is likely to have such MAPs (Motivation and Attitudinal patterns) as — strong motivation toward procedures over options; a preference for solving problems over focus on goals; and a high past time orientation that drives focus on traditions, past experience and benchmarks.