Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 31, 2015

Operational – Know how the organization works inside and out. Sit at home and map out your operational chain from start to finish. For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely.

CEO 150

CEO Development CIO Emotional Intelligence 150

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

These workers leave for a variety of reasons, including limited career growth and pay. an operational strategy consultancy in the San Francisco Bay Area. Terri Williams is a freelance writer who covers leadership topics for The Economist Careers Network. 44% say low performers increase the work burden on high performers.

Charan 257

Charan Attrition Morale Survey 257

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted 5-Step Plan to Developing Your Personal Brand. Then it’s no surprise that you’re not moving up in your career. Implement this 5-step plan for career advancement.” .” Find Jim on Twitter at @72keys. Joel recaps: “Have you developed your personal brand?

Leadership Development 331

Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 331

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. For as long as I can remember, the person bonded to the CEO’s hip was the CFO. To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education. Why Mission Statements Suck [link].

Blog 222

Blog Mission Statement Strategic Planning Brand 222

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Operational - Know how the organization works inside and out. Sit at home and map out your operational chain from start to finish. For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely.

CEO 236

CEO Development Licensing Motivation 236

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted 5-Step Plan to Developing Your Personal Brand. Then it’s no surprise that you’re not moving up in your career. Implement this 5-step plan for career advancement.” .” Find Jim on Twitter at @72keys. Joel recaps: “Have you developed your personal brand?

Leadership Development 201

Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 201

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative. I cut my teeth on corporate America there and have carried those lesson with me throughout my career.

CFO 58

CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

Blog 417

Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Notice in the example I’ve provided below (which is organized by function) how the CEO has the COO promotion ready, and the COO has two possible candidates (both the CFO and the VP of Operations) and has chosen the VP of Operations. Many of the folks have hope of future possibilities and promotions.

Leadership Styles 87

Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Notice in the example I’ve provided below (which is organized by function) how the CEO has the COO promotion ready, and the COO has two possible candidates (both the CFO and the VP of Operations) and has chosen the VP of Operations. Many of the folks have hope of future possibilities and promotions.

Leadership Styles 78

Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Home About Overview News Careers Contact Blog Services Branding/Identity Executive Search Leadership Development Overview CEO Coaching Executive Peer Groups Strategic Growth Consulting Innovation Management Personal Branding Reputation Management Social Media Consulting Pro Bono Services Clients Intermidiaries Downloads Blog Contactus N2growth Home (..)

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Blog Brand CEO Consultative 313

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

The CFO owns a couple. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. An enterprise business model was developed that takes in all the processes across all the business areas. Thanks for sharing this one.

Greenleaf 200

Greenleaf Maslow Goal Goleman 200

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Here is Denise’s post from her perspective as one who has led change from within organizations like Sony during her corporate career and from the outside as a consulting partner, a role she has played for the past 6 years. We’ve each taken on the topic of influence in leadership and are exchanging blog posts.

Influence 275

Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

The career question I hear most often from rising senior leaders is this: “How do I get on the C-suite shortlist?” With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. ” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss.

CFO 8

CFO How To CIO Finance 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. Complement this organization model with operational process. As we know, buggy whip makers and telegraph companies must evolve or die.

Agility 16

Agility Balanced Scorecard COO CFO 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Early in my career, when sharing a vacation house with a group of friends, I learned an important lesson from a classic book by anthropologist Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger : It takes a lot of people cooperating to keep things neat, but it takes only one disgruntled dirt-monger to mess things up. The former CFO did not go quietly.

CFO 16

CFO Chief Financial Officer Cooper Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

Certainly we know that heads of finance and HR tend to move around a lot more because the skills are very transferrable, and in fact it looks better for an HR executive or CFO to show a breadth of industry. You actually get a bit disadvantaged if you''ve been in the same company or the same industry your whole career, as an HR person.

CEO 11

CEO CFO COO Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. Historically, Shell’s top leaders spent their careers at the company. I wanted that experience.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Here's an example*: Peter was the divisional CFO for the consumer unit of a global products company. In our case, Peter promoted one of his people to be the CFO, but reassigned some of his previous responsibilities to others. When Sarah left, Operations also was reconfigured.

Management 14

Management Restructuring CFO Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. We call everybody within the company a “client.”

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Managers who advance in their careers primarily by excelling at operational work go on doing operational work long after they could delegate those duties to other people. One of my students, a mid-sized company CFO, told me that every budget season he personally went through all the budgets to identify inefficiencies.

Porter 12

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

I Give This Blurb 3 Stars Operation Clean Turf and the War on Fake Yelp Reviews Businessweek Were the 19 companies accused of commissioning fake online reviews the only firms out there engaged in this nefarious practice? Andy O’Connell Career Ladder to Nowhere? Not likely. That would only tip off the mendacious.

Review 8

Review CFO PR Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

This is a boss you remember for years, one who has a lasting impact on your career. Since this was a minor operation, Sheila’s supervisor, the head of Supply Chain, paid her very little attention. Eventually, her team built a portfolio that caught the interest of the CFO and the CEO, and soon she was meeting regularly with them.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain CFO Performance Review Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

His father demanded absolute commitment to the business, forcing his son to be “all in” and to follow the career path set down for him in early adolescence. ” His identity as a family member undermined his professional growth and effectiveness as CFO. Very often silos are disparaged as poor management practice.

CFO 8

CFO Retail Follow-up Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. Please don’t let that cloud your judgment as CFO.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In addition they operate from a plan — however confidential it may be — to strengthen the team year over year. 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.

Execution 15

Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

High-achieving executives have been shaped by the pivotal experiences of their careers, yet analytics requires executives to think beyond these mental models. As one financial services CFO told us, “Our mental models were so rigid that even how we thought about data itself needed to be challenged.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Real diversity efforts require organizations to address the social patterns that stifle women’s careers, not just the symptoms that result from them. Despite standard operating procedures and global norms, people create local patterns everywhere they work, and these local patterns define work more strongly than centralized initiatives.

Team 8

Team Diversity Company Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

When considering the promotion of a relatively junior executive to the position of CEO, boards can have the candidate tested and prepared by ensuring an appointment as president, CFO, or COO. Placing the candidate on a corporate board will help him or her gain experience interacting with directors.

CEO 14

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

One CEO told me she was considering firing her CFO because he consistently ran his monthly financial report by the Operations VP before showing it to her and, as she realized, was letting the Operations VP unduly influence when revenues and expenses were recognized. Insiders tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty.

How To 8

How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

However, these executives are often operating in a silent state of continual overwhelm, and the predictable consequence is disengagement. Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm. Virtually every executive client with whom we engage is by all outward measures a superstar of their firm, but that status comes with consequences.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Although the brothers were effectively the CEO, COO, and CFO, they wouldn’t talk to one another for months after a fight, not even on business matters. voting versus non-voting shareholders), participation levels (owner-operators versus passive owners), gender, and generations (senior versus next). Careers and businesses ruined.

CFO 8

CFO Positioning COO Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Just the Job!: If people think of you as an excellent operations guy, they may have a hard time imagining you as a strategic thinker. Address career blemishes. Career planning Hiring Job search' Smart and Fast Strategies to Get the Perfect Job , agrees.

How To 11

How To Reputation Case Study Career 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If you or I were the CFO of a manufacturing company, and we were in a board meeting, and the board asked, “What is your manufacture and capacity utilization?” And we’re seeing these business leaders of tomorrow they’re really championing a new operating model of work. Think about that, Angelia.

Content 9

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

"You're going to dismiss all kinds of information that could be useful to you, your career, and your work," says LaBianca. Carl Kerrigan,* a director of operations at a large pharmaceutical company, sees office gossip as an important communication tool. Gossip in front of your superiors who may frown upon such behavior.

Reputation 8

Reputation Case Study Information CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Peter Currie , our CFO, and I were doing it, and I said, “All right, one last question.” I had worked for several businesses during my career by that time that had become conglomerates, some fairly large, and then had divested themselves of various businesses. It was our last show and we were in a big hurry to get the plane.

How To 17

How To Technology Venture Capitalist Industry 17