Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The CFO is a high performing leader who has passed all the assessment criteria to be a high potential, ready-now candidate for the CEO job. However, this company would never take the risk of putting someone without sales experience in the top sales job. He is told he is the top candidate.

Planning 118

Planning Efficiency Succession Tips 118

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 1, 2016

On an expedition to remote Navarino Island at the very tip of South America, one guide told me, “Modeling what trust means is key. John Sims, CFO at Snowden Lane Partners who climbed the Grand Teton with a guide-led team, says, “Without trust in your teammates, you will only do as much as faith in your own limited abilities will take you.”

Leadership Styles 120

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

Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

The leading candidate is the scheming CFO played by Frederic March, a passionless, colorless bean counter groping for power, but with no vision beyond increasing dividend payouts to stockholders. This article posted on LiveLesium offers six tips for developing this important facet of the charismatic personality—confidence.

Charisma 222

Charisma Leadership CFO Learning-by-Doing 222

Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 31, 2015

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. EQ – Emotional Quotient (or Emotional Intelligence). This is where most C-Level executives fail. What got them to this position (IQ) is now failing them.

CEO 150

CEO Development CIO Emotional Intelligence 150

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

” 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. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted 6 Tips for New Managers. Jon Verbeck shares Focus on Profit Part 1: Decrease Costs.

Leadership Development 269

Leadership Development Development Leadership IAS 269

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company. ” Follow Jon on Twitter at @thindifference. Jon Verbeck of JonVerbeck.com provided The Dashboard May be the Most Important Part of Your Company Vehicle. Find Jon on Twitter at @jonverbeck1.

Leadership Development 331

Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 331

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

Who would be CFO or COO? There is a growing appreciation that the founding team are crucial to the success of any startup, and hopefully these tips will go some way towards ensuring you have just the right team to take your startup to success. Assigning roles. Who would be CEO?

Team 105

Team Entrepreneur COO CFO 105

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

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. recent posts 3 Tips To Take More Powerful Notes During Meetings. What got them to this position (IQ) is now failing them. Smile or Die!

CEO 238

CEO Development Licensing Motivation 238

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company. ” Follow Jon on Twitter at @thindifference. Jon Verbeck of JonVerbeck.com provided The Dashboard May be the Most Important Part of Your Company Vehicle. Find Jon on Twitter at @jonverbeck1.

Leadership Development 201

Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 201

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Smart product managers know the value of having allies in the CFO’s office. When the PM makes a concerted effort to have a strong relationship with sales, their product success will increase. Accounting/Finance: This group is often completely ignored by product management.

Productivity 182

Productivity Products Management Leadership 182

Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

Too often we leave the worries and cares about money to the CFO’s office. Of the three P’s listed above, the one that typically receives the least focus by product managers is profits (or perhaps more clearly stated, revenue ).

Succession 133

Succession CFO Ethics Taylorism 133

Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2014

Top Tips: Ask before assuming anyone wants your business card… there is a way to exchange, receive, acknowledge and even properly place another’s card… Ask others how they prefer to be addressed before assuming first a first-name basis. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

Consultative 56

Consultative Skills CFO Competitive Advantage 56

The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2012

Zenger Folkman has a new book coming out in August that reports on their incredible success with strengths-based leadership, further advances its approaches, and provides lots of practical leadership tips and techniques. It’s entitled, How to Be Exceptional. Click here to meet the key Zenger Folkman leaders.

White Paper 56

White Paper Drucker Leadership Development CFO 56

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

The world is about to reach a tipping point where developed countries will no longer be the majority consumers of oil. While that may sound obvious at face value, it's something that regularly stymies executives. What's your answer? TAXATION TO THE RESCUE? Developing Nations to Outstrip the Rich in Oil Consumption (Slate).

CFO 21

CFO Discount Price Cost 21

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

The world is about to reach a tipping point where developed countries will no longer be the majority consumers of oil. While that may sound obvious at face value, it's something that regularly stymies executives. What's your answer? TAXATION TO THE RESCUE? Developing Nations to Outstrip the Rich in Oil Consumption (Slate).

CFO 10

CFO Discount Price Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Here are three of the main tips I learned on how to format your emails with military precision: 1. Shannon, Bottom Line: We scheduled the weekly update meeting for Thursday at 2 PM CST to accommodate the CFO’s schedule. CFO will be in Boston on Thursday meeting at an offsite with the management committee.

How To 8

How To Bottom-up CFO P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

When I spoke with a CFO about this recently, he said: "Rafi, the key is to not let a price hike become emotional to customers, because that's when they become irrational and ultimately leave.". Following the tips below will help ensure that your price hike doesn't result in drama and unwelcome media frenzy: Employ Bedside Manners.

Price 13

Price Retail Press Release Banking 13

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

These tips will help you start 2017 with a great year.” In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck helps readers get back to basics—explaining that we’re in business to make a profit (which can help us do good things). These tips will help you move forward in your creativity and profit from what you create.”

Leadership Development 150

Leadership Development Development Leadership Ethics 150

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." Your facial hair should look like it’s there intentionally; a helpful tip would be to use personal time like weekends or vacations to spend time growing out your hair. ​ ​1.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

That would only tip off the mendacious. Fortune It was perhaps this summer''s most chilling business story: the suicide of Zurich Insurance Group CFO Pierre Wauthier, who left a note condemning the company''s chair, Josef Ackermann. Andy O’Connell Career Ladder to Nowhere? It''s one of the prerequisites of modern professional life.

Review 8

Review CFO PR Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

After a few tepid responses, Walter, the CFO, threw out a grenade headline: Company tries desperately to hang on to aging cash cows and antiquated ways of doing business in the flawed hope that they can maintain the status quo forever. And if you’d asked me if Rashid would be the tipping point to change, I would have also bet against that.

COO 8

COO Short-term CFO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Below are six tips that came out of a conversation with my executive MBAs: 1. One of my students, a mid-sized company CFO, told me that every budget season he personally went through all the budgets to identify inefficiencies. Stay alert and attuned to your environment. Those who want to develop themselves must create opportunities.

Porter 10

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It is part shared confessional with peers and part trading research, strategies, tips and lifehacks that DeGroot collects and analyzes for best practices. “I’m not sure when I first asked if I thought it would be successful,” said Hickox, now CFO of Independent Bank in McKinney Texas. ” None of this is easy.

Banking 15

Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Densmor, Terranola’s CFO, saw those words on Twitter about one minute after Hughes had uttered them. But of course Hughes’s presentation was a tipping point. As CFO, A.J. But when his marketing chief got a tip that a global snack industry website was about to publish an interview with Hughes about Terranola, A.J.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Just when you think she's gone too far, that she must now tip into the ridiculous, she manages to redeem herself. If you are a CFO for a large company, Lady Gaga's videos and that Chrome ad looks like an affront to civic virtue and private decency. She is theater. No gesture is too grand. No outfit too exaggerated.

CFO 14

CFO Objective Video Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. Two of the teams devoted time each week to reviewing their feedback in groups, and sharing tips to improve their performance. A clear link to financial and strategic outcomes. Your customer metrics must correlate with financial and strategic goals.

Incentives 10

Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

It’s better to understand what rolls off the tip of the tongue naturally or how something comes across in a pre-game warm-up than to find out when the stakes are high on the field. He also saw how Sheila, his CFO, was going to be a critical expert for the group in a year where costs and budgets were coming to the forefront.

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Goal Class Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

This could be directly, as Sephora does with its online communities using beauty tips as currencies. The CHRO can be working on networking employees and locations; the CMO on networking customers and partners; the CFO on networking funding and payments; the CIO on software and data; and the COO on products and services.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Scaling up comes with CFO and board pressure to gain efficiency, and the natural tendency of a business will be to squeeze customer teams. The tips and strategies I’ve recommended are not particularly complex or clever–on the contrary, they’re at best just advanced common sense.

Metrics 14

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

We all make pitches every day — for that highly-prized account; to a client who's reluctant to accept your scary proposal; for a skeptical CFO to loosen the purse strings; or for a wary new team to believe in you. Here's what I've learned about winning pitches like these: 1.

Belief Systems 16

Belief Systems Tips Audience CFO 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

The CEO wonders how you spend your time, the CFO wonders how you spend the company’s money, the sales folks think you’re too conceptual, too abstract, and not sufficiently focused on the immediate business, and the production and supply chain guys just think you’re full of hot air.". Is Chinese Real Estate Nearing a Tipping Point?

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Real Estate ROI CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

” A tip: If you’re proposing to work from home a single day per week, try for Wednesday. “Now even our CEO and CFO work from home from time to time,” he says. “Your manager needs for other people to not see your schedule as a four-day week.” “Wednesday is not a slacker day,” he says.

Proposal 14

Proposal How To Case Study Motivation 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Peter Currie , our CFO, and I were doing it, and I said, “All right, one last question.” Bundles of any time start coming together — like Marc says, I think now because it’s technologically so much easier to do — until they either tip over from their own weight or the consumer says, “I would rather have piece parts than the bundle.”.

How To 13

How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 13