Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

Bottom tier jobs depend on the level of your education, such as a clerk or bookkeeper’s job demands a high school diploma and an associate degree. If you work in the field long enough, you can go from a staff accountant to an executive position such as a CFO. Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Good luck with that. Bookkeeper.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? ™: How to Future Proof Your Small Business and Improve Your Tech Bottom Line. An excerpt is below.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 88

Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Posted on October 12, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment So, the Globe and Mail is doing a big feature series on why there aren’t more women heading up Canadian corporations and, worse, why other countries are scooping our (apparently meager) female executive talent. Clark… can’t you do better than that? Are you kidding me? Happy leading!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sure, a disclosure is immensely beneficial in terms of buttressing industrial safeguards, national and global security, and customer protection – not to mention mitigating the longer-term repercussions of an attack – but so too can disclosure exact lasting damage on a bottom line. Fighting back.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2012

After so many years of successful partnering with Jack Zenger at his previous company (he headed up Zenger Miller when I was a partner in The Achieve Group), I am quite excited to be working with him and his colleagues again. We’ve just finalized a Strategic Partnership with Zenger Folkman ( www.zengerfolkman.com ).

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. Customers don’t expect to get bottom-of-the-barrel prices everywhere they go, but they do expect to be treated with respect. Recently I ordered some shoes from Zappos that ended up not fitting.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Sharon Drew explores what happens when he stumbles in the dark trying to bring his fellow managers, the internal tech team (which is responsible for the current site), and the CFO (to whom the tech team reports) on board. Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Unlike the world of the CFO, management and staff generally do what they like when it comes to creating and (not) disposing of information, creating a cavernous gap in accountability. It is ultimately up to each of us to make a difference.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

Costco's CFO, Richard Galanti stated, "People are eating in more and looking for fresh food, which, along with [our] low gas prices, is what are driving people into our stores more often. Then, once they are inside, they pick up a sweater or a new television.". Consumers do not just wake up and make a purchase.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our experience, companies that adopt this marketing analytics approach can unlock 10–20 percent of their marketing budget to either reinvest in marketing or return to the bottom line. CMOs need to start building this relationship by having a clear understanding of what CFOs expect.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

It turns out that while respected for his intellect, Brian showed up as meek and understated, leaving others with a perception that he was junior and not ready to represent the firm as a partner. Complaints about communication style usually concern how one speaks up (or doesn’t) in various forums.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

When resources are allocated from the bottom up instead of from the top down, they get out of sync with what the senior team is trying to accomplish. As Keith Sherin, then GE’s CFO put it, “This is where the growth is. The brilliant decision-makers look at the runway ahead. We are shifting our center of gravity.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. Ahmed accused Damon of throwing up roadblocks and using his power to undermine the sales department. After they hung up, Lance was still thinking about the idea of letting Ahmed and Damon go.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. Nikon could then follow up by asking what would persuade the investor to repurchase. I assumed you had some further cost reduction up your sleeve.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF). For my corporate job, I don’t use the acronym “BLUF” because it would be unclear to recipients, but I have started leading with “Bottom Line” in bold at the start of my notes. Sometimes, I even highlight the bottom line in yellow so that my point is abundantly clear.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In light of this, an employee is evaluated not based on what she contributed to the company’s bottom line, but whether she identified a new, breakthrough idea. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2014

Sales reps were trained in their products and how to sell them, scientists went to conferences, engineers were offered continued training to keep their skills up to date, and new managers were trained how to manage. A new CFO came on board and decided that training was a luxury that could no longer be afforded.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2015

At the bottom it’s critical, but it’s a lot less so at the top. Distefano : Because we’ve got [a database of] over two million assessed executives, we can cut that so that we can see how a CFO at a state-owned firm in China is different from a CFO in private equity-owned firm in Silicon Valley.

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Execution CFO Self-aware Benchmarking 8

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

You’re moving on up. Making your way up the ladder, dodging bullets, using every last bit of your intellect and motivation to deftly ingratiate yourself with key decision-makers. How To Pick Yourself Up After You Fail. It’s a high-wire balancing act many executives go through to grab the golden ring. Smile or Die!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

How many companies have deployed internal wikis and social networks with great fanfare only to see slow take-up or a huge slow down after a few months? Even among digital natives, adoption of things like enterprise digital tools often doesn’t live up to lofty expectations.

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Technology Metrics Budgeting CIO 11

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

In their CFO Magazine piece, “ How An Obsession with Metrics Is Killing Your Company ”, authors Alexander Van Caeneghem and Jean-Marie Bequevort , write, “The quest for financial performance and the pressure to measure can corrode organizational cultures, narrow the focus of leadership, reduce intrinsic motivation, and support unethical behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

They put up almost no capital and usually lower their day-to-day energy costs. I spoke with Owens Corning execs, catching up after working with them a number of years ago, to understand how they did it. They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. E-mail us at healtheditors@hbr.org , and sign up to receive updates here. million by creating an internal facility for drug compounding and packaging.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Five traits came up time and again. This trait was wonderfully illustrated by a senior vice president in a telecoms company who recounted how a regulatory ruling had just wiped several millions dollars from his bottom line. His only thought was how to make up the shortfall. Insiders make their numbers.

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How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Aubrey had transferred from the Coe's up in Flowing Wells, where he'd been the store manager for 10 years. He pointed up at the celebratory banner that still hung in the front of the store. She's can't believe all the things we can get up here. Back at the office, Stan stopped by to see his CFO, Carl Amirault. I doubt it.

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Case Study Marketing Real Estate Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Fast forward to 2016, and almost all of RedBalloon’s brand advertising was invested in traditional media outlets like radio, print, billboards, and pop-up retail stores. The company’s cost of new customer acquisition had ballooned from 5 cents to $50. Albert is now generating $15 of return for every $1 of marketing investment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

” Hands shot up immediately, with responses like “Watch less TV!” A self-aware and seasoned leader, he recognized that he needed to rethink his support system, as he was really feeling the pressures of continued bottom-line performance in the context of slowing revenue growth. You and Your Team. Improving Yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Densmor, Terranola’s CFO, saw those words on Twitter about one minute after Hughes had uttered them. spoke up. “We As CFO, A.J. was painfully aware of the consequences of the stock slide, which now amounted to 20% from the peak, with no bottom in sight. An agitated Henry burst into his office only a few seconds later.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Lotta Tindal, the chief marketing officer for the Dutch hospitality group Ervaring Hotels & Resorts, hadn’t wanted to come to the presentation, but Gerard Bakker, Ervaring’s CFO, had twisted her arm. ” When the lights in the room came up, Gerard turned to Lotta. “Stop acting like a teenager,” he joked.

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Case Study Travel Hotels NPV 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. It was Noelle’s third scheduled meeting to review financials, and again she was alone in a conference room waiting for people to show up. ” Doug spoke up.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. percentage points higher than those in the bottom quartile.

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Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” So, when his daughter began lining up child care and preparing to go back to work after a three-month leave, the two grandmothers offered to take two days a week each. “The bottom line increases when you make these changes.” ” Believing in Your Plan and Speaking up. Learning to Work Differently.

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Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Henry Beyer walked up to a Mini Cooper in the city parking lot across the street from his office in downtown Houston. It looks like someone left something behind," his colleague Tony Cummins said, reaching into the back and picking up a pair of socks. One was a Prius, the other a Nissan pick-up truck. "We''ll A Third Opinion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. Viewed this way, there is a bottom-up solution to the problem of America’s uninsured. America spends $3.3 Yet nearly 30 million Americans, or 10% of the population, are uninsured.

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Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Maybe, as a start, we ought to describe peopley stuff in more economic language, by putting it in some context that will help our CFO and engineering friends better understand how things relate to one another. He didn't say shove them in the back seat and ask them to sit down and shut up and let us drive. Or: S = (PT) C.

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