CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Leaders might feel superhuman powers are needed to retain their employees in 2022, as The Great Resignation rages on. However, my view is that stemming the tide of talent defections is within relatively easy reach for we mere mortal CEOs, so long as our organisations’ values, HR policies and management styles are calibrated in the […].

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

If you can combine that idea with a powerful rationale, you’ll get to “yes” before you know it. You can either ramble on about all the data you’re gathering and the analysis you’re doing or you can give them a brief yet powerful explanation of the idea you’re pursuing and why it’s exciting. Make Your Audience Care.

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Metrics CFO Chief Financial Officer Marketing 50

Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

We all have the capacity for imagination and applied it has the power to unlock or fullest potential. Brian Paradis was the Chief Financial Officer for Florida Hospital when he was tasked with leading the troubled organization in 2006. This is a powerful book. Love is both power and powerful.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC).

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

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. Don't give them power. The task for everyone else is not to let them. The former CFO did not go quietly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

There is good news for chief financial officers, too, in these analyses. The hospitals with better safety and patient experience performance also had better financial performance. For example, the financial margins for the hospitals in the top quartile of patients’ likelihood to recommend were 4.8

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Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Work/life balance has always been prized by working women juggling the demands of family and high-powered jobs, and now these moms are being seconded by incoming Millennials, who consider it a basic entitlement to play as hard as they work, as well as Gen X dads. Recognition resonates.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The global tilt is an irreversible shift of economic power from North to South: from the U.S., Fluid capital, mobile communications, and an expanding global middle class all contribute to the global tilt, but the human factor is also a powerful driver. We are shifting our center of gravity to emerging markets."

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Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Ghosn was recently arrested for financial misconduct, fired from his position as Nissan’s board chairman, and criticized by Nissan’s Japanese CEO for accumulating too much power. Didn’t Nissan have internal controls designed to assure the accuracy and completeness of its public disclosures?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Experiences power that growth cycle, so you’ll want to understand which experiences matter most and gain as many of them as quickly as possible. If you want to be a chief financial officer (CFO), identify five CFOs who you admire or who are well regarded in your industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The global tilt is an irreversible shift of economic power from North to South: from the U.S., Fluid capital, mobile communications, and an expanding global middle class all contribute to the global tilt, but the human factor is also a powerful driver. We are shifting our center of gravity to emerging markets."

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Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

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. There has thus been a related, dramatic shift in power from outside private firms to inside law departments.

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Chief Financial Officer Trends Crisis Definition 8

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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

A few years ago I was working with a global company that was trying to engage Chief Financial Officers. This combination of economic benefit and social reward is a powerful engagement strategy. The final reason is confidence. Companies often don’t think they have anything to say.

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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

JULY 11, 2013

At the annual conference of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners late last month, former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who served six years in prison for his part in Enron''s deceptions, offered an explanation. So why did Enron go bankrupt? Was it because of the fraud, or was there another reason?

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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. On the other hand, maybe that's a good thing: maintaining a balance of power between trading and banking was long a key to Goldman's success.

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