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. Leading with imagination and leading for results require skill and competence, constant self-evaluation, a servant’s heart, and a relentlessness to get it ‘mostly’ right.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Last month, Patrick Pichette, Google’s 52-year-old chief financial officer, announced that he was retiring to spend more time with his family. Just like practicing any other skill, keeping each other on track becomes easier over time. Be willing to experiment.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

To make causal inferences about the effect of heritage, we had to make sure that cultural background was what drove executives’ decisions and firm performance — rather than other skills and characteristics that may have got them appointed to lead in the first place.

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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. Make sure the critical skills don’t already exist in-house. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

What skills and expertise do I need on the team to accomplish the unit's goals and allow me to play that value-added role? 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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Their purpose is to instill the company’s vision and values and cultivate critical skills and competencies. A few years ago I was working with a global company that was trying to engage Chief Financial Officers. Over 4,000 companies have corporate universities. The final reason is confidence.

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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 hunt for such talent is taking place in the world’s hottest market for advanced skills. Securing analytics expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Learning to communicate well and to influence other people are essential skills in business. The Big Four are: The Chief Executive Officer: your inner Dreamer. The Chief Financial Officer: your inner Thinker. The Chief Operating Officer: your inner Warrior. Negotiating with yourself?

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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

MARCH 12, 2012

The organizational "geography" also matters — chief marketing officer versus chief financial officer. If your skills are rusty, enroll in a course to supplement your gaps. In other words, according to Carlson, at 50 the only person I could work for was myself. Network and meet young people.

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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

MARCH 9, 2016

From the outset, all three men viewed themselves as serving in multiple roles: founder, custodian, brand manager, chief financial officer, recruiter, and head of consumer insights. A curious mind armed with skill, experience, and knowledge can give birth to a brand revolution. They operated on shoestrings.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

China has accumulated a vast manufacturing ecosystem servicing foreign companies, encompassing everything from hard infrastructure to soft skills. Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple, a company so committed to manufacturing in China that it labels many of its products, “Designed in California. Yuji Sakai/Getty Images.

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