Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

L EADERSHIP is a broad term, and it applies to those who you might not have a positive perception of — including mobsters. All organizations, lawful and unlawful, face the same corporate governance problem: how to attract, retain, and motivate a self-interested workforce to achieve the organization’s mission and strategy.

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P&L Franchising Leadership Forrester 323

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 14, 2015

I spent the next decade keeping my HR and Finance partners as close as possible. The HR (or training) organization becomes the dumping ground for people who struggled to “carry a bag” in the sales function or meet their P & L in an executive role. I spent the first decade of my career in HR. Disconnected Metrics.

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P&L Metrics Compliance Advice 180

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Books like Helping People Change and The Power of Bad , have the power to change forever how we work with others and address the things that hold us back. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Portfolo, 2019) Do you know how to play the game you’re in? Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 236

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

A study of UC Berkeley PhDs discovered that EQ was 40 times more powerful in predicting who achieved success in their fields than IQ ( Developing Management Skills ). managers, the average score on a simple financial literacy test was 38% (Harvard Business Review). Strategy without finance is dead.

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P&L CFO Sharpe Finance 57

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Executives frequently focus on analyzing the company’s profit and loss to determine where the company is over-spending and being wasteful, and then figure out how to reduce expenses to drive more profit to the bottom line. However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly.

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Company P&L Bottom-up Advertising 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Yet most remain uneasy or uninvolved when it comes to talking about and managing money. When she's not at work managing a portfolio that consistently outperforms relevant benchmarks, you can find her at home buying and bearing bonds. This friend also studied engineering in college and knows how to code. — USA Today.

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Finance P&L Due Diligence Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee.

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P&L How To Finance Metrics 13