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. Your ego must be managed. Leadership is hard work.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2019

Realizing that you can gain education from both environments allows an opportunity for you to thrive as an employee and manage a successful side hustle. As a result of limited job functions in a large corporate environment, it doesn’t give you the full breadth of work involved in successfully managing an enterprise.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

An MBA holder can become a Financial Analyst, Business Consultant, Leadership Trainer, or Corporate Strategist. Graduates of MBA programs move into upper management roles and executive positions in nearly any industry. It can include positions such as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, or Operations Manager.

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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. They need to be tech experts, navigating your cloud contact center , social media and customer management systems.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

Keenly aware that while your title makes you manager, only your team makes you leader. They may be easier to manage, but a lot less effective. Lead investors, the investors who price a round and set the terms, can help manage the syndicate of shareholders. But you are missing an opportunity to add strength to your leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

The problem is: many hiring managers just don’t know how to evaluate external recruiters. The Common Approach – and Why it Doesn’t Really Work When evaluating external recruiters, most hiring managers start by asking: “how many placements have you made in our industry?” 4 Questions to Ask to Select the Right External Recruiter 1.

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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. Controllers are financial officers who manage the accounting department of large organizations. Cost Accountant Manager. Controller. CONCLUSION.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

Thomas Johnson and Anders Broms, the authors provide many good thoughts on the problems of accounting measures and management. At Berkshire, managers can focus on running their businesses: They are not subjected to meetings at headquarters nor financing worries nor Wall Street harassment. In Profit Beyond Measure by H.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

This has become a favorite management insight as I advise bosses and boards. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow. 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., Is that a coincidence?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. Wilson went on to be COO of The Gap Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

I know Atul Gawande has talked about having primary care physicians act as a sort of project manager in adult medicine. The providers and front-office staff know what’s comforting to this particular child, making the experience calm, as opposed to a blood draw where you’re calling security to try to hold down a child.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Leadership & Developing People Book. From a business strategist who can appear aloof and dismissive of those with less intellectual horsepower, to a general manager who aligns and inspires her region through personal connections and demonstrates genuine care for people. Further Reading. Marc Effron. Add to Cart. Ask for insights.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

These include legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement, litigation, ethics, reputation, crisis management, corporate citizenship, and pressures from public officials, NGOs, and the media. The challenges of business-in-society issues arise in many different settings. In most major U.S. This is the essence of corporate citizenship.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The title Chief Executive Officer is something of a misnomer. The task of a CEO — and for that matter of any manager — is not wholly or even primarily about execution. An effective CEO makes things happen principally through his executive colleagues, aptly called “Chiefs” too: the CFO, CCO, and COO.

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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

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. Today, as the power of data and analytics profoundly alters the business landscape, companies once again may need more top-management muscle.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

So we relied on a setting where firms faced an unexpected competitive shock, one that directors could not have anticipated and selected specific CEOs to manage it, and one that forced CEOs to make complex, non-routine, and unstructured decisions — decisions where CEOs’ characteristics are likely to affect how they respond.

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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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. Don't get me wrong.

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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. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The general counsel is now a core member of the top management team and offers advice not just on law and related matters but helps shape discussion and debate about business issues. Inside lawyers, in short, have forged new leadership and cooperation with firms on matters and fostered new competition and control on money.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Hiring, managing performance, and firing. 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 Chief Financial Officer: your inner Thinker.

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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. Megafirm had outsourced the management of the problem to us. When companies become too complex to manage, they create costs to others.

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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. The common view is that, as Felix puts it, "board members are meant to keep management under control.". Well, mainly from Michael C.

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