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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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

announced that its chief financial officer Josh Smiley had resigned over his involvement with an employee in the firm. Anat Ashkenazi, previously senior vice president, controller and chief financial officer of Lilly Research Laboratories, has been named as his successor and will now be the next CFO.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2019

Business Ownership Strengthens Your Employee Net Worth: In most positions you rarely get the opportunity to experience the functions associated with the roles of a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer, as well as manage the day-to-day requirements for customer engagement and retention.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 13, 2014

Companies with more women in leadership posts simply perform better. Yet the number of women at the top is barely budging: some 5% of Fortune 500 chief executive officers and 17% of board members. “If you want to change the numbers, you have to get men involved,” says Mike Kaufmann, chief financial officer of Cardinal Health.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Chief Financial Officer. You need a numbers guy to navigate your company to financial success. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements. Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics.

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

This is the lose structural framework, but one can classify managers based on their leadership styles too. Too much hovering and guidance lead to a feeling of being overwhelmed, and people tend to give up faster under such leadership. An explanation of the structural format of management and managers.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

An MBA holder can become a Financial Analyst, Business Consultant, Leadership Trainer, or Corporate Strategist. It can include positions such as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, or Operations Manager. The corporate world offers many positions that require an MBA degree.

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HR Digest

MARCH 11, 2020

Google had already suggested to employees to work from home as far as possible in some offices and restricted entries to all external visitors from coming into some of its offices in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in an email, “Every Google office is affected in some way.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

But you are missing an opportunity to add strength to your leadership. He’s a seasoned financial operator with extensive experience in startups and growth companies. He serves as Chief Financial Officer of publicly traded Leaf Group (NYSE: LFGR), a diversified consumer internet company.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 12, 2020

Ironically, even though Pinterest markets itself to women as a source of lifestyle inspiration, the company leadership team is male-dominated, and gender-biased attitudes are prevalent,” the lawsuit says. The company’s executive board is entirely made up of men!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The position of CFO demands the most considerable expertise, maximum experience, and exceptional leadership skills. JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN ACCOUNTING CAREER. CFO is one of the end goal positions for all accountants.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

Put it this way: just because an agency placed a technical Project Manager at a software company doesn’t mean they can find the right Chief Financial Officer or Director of Marketing in the same industry. First, the roles (or needs) of those previous searches may have been significantly different from yours.

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CEO Insider

JULY 28, 2022

Research shows that narcissists tend to be attracted to leadership positions as they are positions of power, so they need to learn how to balance selfishness with selflessness. Narcissistic leaders’ self-centered personalities not only disrupt organizational culture, but they can also derail an organization and leave it unviable.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Chief Financial Officer: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in incremental profits.”. Chief Marketing Officer: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can increase our European market share by X%.”. Army as a combat arms officer.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

Almost 80 percent of chief financial officers at 400 of America’s largest public companies say they would sacrifice a firm’s economic value to meet the quarter’s earnings expectations. How to Stop Short-Term Thinking at America’s Companies.

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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. Once you commit to the principle of love, a high hurdle presents itself when leaning into authenticity in your leadership. Leadership is hard work. Your ego must be managed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Some organizations have improved faster than others, and gains have been greatest in areas that were major focuses of leadership at many institutions (e.g., There is good news for chief financial officers, too, in these analyses. That said, many organizations have made steady improvements in multiple types of performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

All of those have a financial plus side to them, but more importantly, the top doctors and researchers are attracted to that kind of atmosphere. I knew I had to get a top chief financial officer. What did you have to learn when you became CEO? I had to solve for a deficiency, a lack of experience, with hospital finance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

In one recent case, the chief financial officer of a small company was fired for possible expense account violations, and he was also seen as a poor strategist and weak team player. The task for everyone else is not to let them. This has become a favorite management insight as I advise bosses and boards.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team). ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It needs to change the critical selection process by assuring that leadership development includes major experience on broad integrity, risk, and public issues—and then choosing a CEO with the requisite breadth and commitment. In most major U.S. This is the essence of corporate citizenship.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead leadership development for LinkedIn. Ritz Carlton and Zappos follow a similar model.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The chief information security officer (CISO) or chief information officer (CIO) reports the technical vulnerabilities that his or her team has successfully remediated. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

We replicated our analysis for the Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) of each bank and other members of the top management team, but we did not find a relationship between their cultural heritage and firm performance. This confirmed the role of the CEO as the most important decision-maker in a bank.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

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. The possibility of failure is high when companies don’t commit senior leadership. Putting leadership capacity where it’s needed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Leadership & Developing People Book. If you want to be a chief financial officer (CFO), identify five CFOs who you admire or who are well regarded in your industry. Your growth process should follow the exact same path, clearly specifying where you are today and your preferred destination. Further Reading.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2011

My boss, the Chief Financial Officer, set lofty goals. Adding to the challenge was an already understaffed technology department, supporting antiquated technology. The task was daunting, but we had an amazing team. However, a record of successes quickly built the organization’s confidence in our team.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led. In doing so, activist investors are not just benefitting from a company’s leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Because "business in society" issues pose so much risk (and in some cases opportunity), the general counsel is viewed in many companies having the same stature as the Chief Financial Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

It was originally seen as a good thing – a way of allowing organizations to survive changes in leadership, and to resist the capriciousness of powerful individual leaders with vested interests. The dictionary says bureaucracy is a means of coordinating activities through standardized rules and procedures.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

At the start of my leadership development programs, I ask people for examples of "negotiating with yourself." To help people develop in their leadership and in their lives, I honed in on a small set of those hundreds of faces. The Big Four are: The Chief Executive Officer: your inner Dreamer. At first this sounds strange.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For example, Tim Sheahan, Chief Financial Officer for a large division of a multi-national corporation, aspires to become CFO of a Fortune 100 company in the future. Rather than wait for an opening, they troll for talent both inside the organization and externally to find people to add to the team when the time is right.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that chief financial officers are getting chucked off their companies' boards right and left as part of the push for more independent directors. At least, that's my reading of the voluminous academic research on the topic. Yet the anti-insider movement rolls on unchecked.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

But perhaps an even more accurate title would be Chief Decision Officer as this is the task that rests most fully on the shoulders of the boss. Chief Framing Officer probably won’t work (because of the acronym confusion with Chief Financial Officer) but perhaps Chief Evaluation Officer would (at least it shares the acronym).

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