Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2017

In this post, Chris gives pointers regarding how you, as a leader, can ensure you’re paying close enough attention to the quality of your team or company’s work culture. Everyone knows the roles and responsibilities for a CEO, CFO and CTO but change the wording and a different picture emerges. Don’t believe it?

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Leadership Development Development Leadership CTO 264

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

Some thoughts about what you can do to make relationship-building at work a priority: Make building and sustaining high-quality relationships a priority: What will it take to put “building relationships” at the top of your “to-do” list? The CFO owns a couple.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. Both of those leaders are now CEOs — one of a $10 billion retail chain and another of a specialty eyewear company. A personal experience map shows which experiences you want to acquire in the next two to five years to grow your career. Build your map.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

If you’re a business leader looking for an opportunity to have real impact on your company — and position yourself for the top job — which career path is best? That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO?

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

And we have figured out why: analytics forces changes on the C-suite that the CEO has to anticipate and manage, but many don’t. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics. CEOs must anticipate this reaction.

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CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Swansea City gets a player of much higher quality than they could hire, and Tottenham Hotspur gets Caroll having the first team action so critical to his development. Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009, retired in May 2013. Historically, Shell’s top leaders spent their careers at the company.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Typically for an internal consulting group, we had to grow gradually as we demonstrated the quality of our work. the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). This also forces us to deliver great quality on every project.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last year Dina, a CEO I’d been working with, felt that leaders on her team were playing it too safe. After a few tepid responses, Walter, the CFO, threw out a grenade headline: Company tries desperately to hang on to aging cash cows and antiquated ways of doing business in the flawed hope that they can maintain the status quo forever.

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COO CFO Short-term Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

And the most-successful managers must change similarly as they assume additional or different responsibilities through their careers, moving from head of sales to COO or from CFO to CEO. As leaders, all of us will be forced to balance consistency and agility in our careers and in the organizations we serve.

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Agility Balanced Scorecard COO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

We talked to 24 current and former not-white-male CEOs , who spoke candidly about what they faced as they built their careers and how they developed inclusive organizations. Leadership Qualities. And we''ve got advice about how to sell your ideas to women , in a world where there are growing numbers of women with P&L power.

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P&L CFO Self-aware Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The CEO and CFO were marching through their 112-slide presentation. Early on in our careers, we might speak up without concern or context. Minority viewpoints have been proven to aid the quality of decision making in juries, by teams, and for the purpose of innovation. When is the time for you to speak?

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