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How “Strategically Aligned” is your Leadership Development Program?

Great Leadership By Dan

If you’re in charge of your organization’s training, talent management, succession planning, or HR function, when’s the last time you talked to your C-level executives about leadership development? Within the last few months - I talk to our C-level Execs on a regular basis about leadership development. Pick one answer: A.

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Boards Should Take Responsibility for Cybersecurity. Here’s How to Do It

Harvard Business Review

But while cybersecurity is now on the agenda at board meetings, this doesn’t mean that board members understand how to tackle the issue. After all, most board members have expertise in other forms of risk, and not in how to protect corporate assets from nation-state attackers and highly organized cyber adversaries.

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7 Principles to Lead with Imagination

Leading Blog

Brian Paradis was the Chief Financial Officer for Florida Hospital when he was tasked with leading the troubled organization in 2006. Lead with Imagination he writes is about “how to lead and how to do it with imagination. It is first about how to be, about character, before checklists and a list of to-dos.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies.

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Here’s Why Strategy Chiefs Succeed or Fail

Harvard Business Review

So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. But Anderson, who had served as an independent director on the company’s board for several years, did this through having “tremendous relationships and credibility with the operating executives.”

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. In the media and internet industries, it turns out to be very important when operating in China.

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Can Your C-Suite Handle Big Data?

Harvard Business Review

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. That leaves important decisions about where the new roles will be located and how to draw new lines of authority.