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CEO Insider

JUNE 6, 2023

During my CEO Group workshops, I often ask the members to pair off and thumb-wrestle one another. I tell them that the CEO who gets the most pins in thirty seconds will win a fictional $100,000. After thirty seconds, I asked each pair who got the most pins.

Magazine

Magazine Workshop CEO Chief Financial Officer

Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Developing Leaders

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A number of them have brought me back to work with them again as they move to their next level like from CFO to COO or, in another example, several times over the years as the leader moved from VP to SVP to business unit president to, finally, CEO of his company. Frankly, some of those went really well and others were just so-so.

Development

Development Long-term Workshop Learning-by-Doing

Photo Inquiry Friday: What are you already doing that is working well?

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 17, 2012

I was asked by a CFO of a hospital, who attended a talk I gave on ‘ Working & Managing Across Generations ’ to contact the hospitals HR director and Workforce Education director. BUT the CFO would not be on the call. Me, “Thank you for taking your time today did CFO give you any idea into why he wanted us to talk?”.

CFO

CFO Workshop Conference Learning-by-Doing

Company Strategic Planning Agenda

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Below is a 1 day strategic planning workshop. CFO $$ talk: Comparison of past to present financial Profit & Revenue. Strategic Planning Agenda. Following the strategic planning meeting there was 4 follow-up meetings to refine the plan and document action steps. Objectives: Develop strategic plan for 2014+. 4 mixed teams.

Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning Planning Company CFO

Leaders Must Put Character At The Center Of Everything They Do

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He provides you proven techniques, workshop processes, real-world case studies and examples and insightful observations from business leaders and his own career – which includes 20 years as an executive at IBM and CFO positions at Cisco and Red Hat.

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer Agility Loyalty CFO

Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Facilitates workshops on vision, mission and values integration. Facebook’s first HR hire, she has led global people programs, been an HR Business Partner, and CFO. Brown Johnson – EVP, Creative Director, Sesame Workshop. Cornell University Entrepreneurship Advisory Board and Faculty of Cornell Tech. and The Career Playbook.

Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking

R&D Won’t Succeed If It Ignores the CEO’s Vision

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. What would inspire the CFO or CEO to talk to investors about a major innovation underway?

CFO

CFO Innovation CEO Airlines

Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias. The company’s CFO asked a crowd of the company’s most accomplished finance leaders to raise their hand if they had attended an Ivy League school. But they don’t know how to get there. Hardly anyone raised their hand.

Power

Power Management Diversity CFO

How Thomson Reuters Is Creating a Culture of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The teams with the most compelling ideas were given an opportunity to present and defend their idea to the innovation investment committee, which included the CEO, CFO, and a few other senior executives. In the first month, five “winners” were announced and then immediately publicized on the Thomson Reuters internal web site.

Innovation

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop

Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

When a change practitioner talks about data, typically that is qualitative information, generated by a root cause analysis workshop or similar. This makes it difficult to justify investment in change management with the rigor that a data-driven CEO or CFO might expect.

Marketing

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain

What Social Entrepreneurs Can Teach Your Company's Future Leaders

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Allianz employees are paired with social entrepreneurs for a five-day intensive workshop following a mandatory training session that prepares employees for their assigned projects. At Allianz, the program was initiated and supported by the company CFO. Allianz assigns an OPEX coach to each team for quality control.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising

Ace the Group Interview

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

An interview with the board of directors is standard for the CEO, CFO, and nonprofit Executive Director hiring processes, but the group interview approach is becoming more common for many other positions. Remember the sales training workshop you went to once that taught you to sell benefits, not features ?

Due Diligence

Due Diligence Reference CFO Workshop

Uber’s New CEO Will Have to Win on Two Fronts Simultaneously

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

A survey that we conducted earlier this year, of 319 executives around the world as well as 12 CEO workshops with leaders of over 100 of the most promising growth companies, indicates that the most troublesome challenges cluster in four areas.

CEO

CEO IPO Energy COO

To Address Gender Bias at Your Company, Start with Teams

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Brett (not his real name) was the CFO of a major multinational. Until organizational leaders have the bravery to take a holistic look at diversity and inclusion and understand their true drivers, we’ll be stuck with half-day workshops. And as we all know, a half-day workshop just won’t cut it. But he did.

Team

Team Diversity Company Policies

Leadership Digital

Better Together

Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Developing Leaders

Trending Sources

Photo Inquiry Friday: What are you already doing that is working well?

Company Strategic Planning Agenda

Leaders Must Put Character At The Center Of Everything They Do

Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

R&D Won’t Succeed If It Ignores the CEO’s Vision

Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

How Thomson Reuters Is Creating a Culture of Innovation

Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

What Social Entrepreneurs Can Teach Your Company's Future Leaders

Ace the Group Interview

Uber’s New CEO Will Have to Win on Two Fronts Simultaneously

To Address Gender Bias at Your Company, Start with Teams

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