Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2012

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. If not, why?

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Leadership Development Development Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer 229

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

By and large they’ve been surprised to see how differently we evaluate their potential executive search partners than they would. The problem is: many hiring managers just don’t know how to evaluate external recruiters. Meanwhile, fly-by-night operations can sometimes get lucky – as they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Execution 213

Execution Chief Financial Officer Industry Strategy 213

Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. …. How to Stop Short-Term Thinking at America’s Companies. If we could spend twice that amount productively, we would happily do so though short-term results would be further penalized.

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Short-term Long-term Deming Management 28

Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

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.

Chief Financial Officer 314

Chief Financial Officer Self-aware Gordon Open-book 314

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. There is good news for chief financial officers, too, in these analyses. Is that a coincidence?

Health Care 12

Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

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.”

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

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. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10