Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There’s no single CEO-like entity and no hierarchy for single accountability. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. logistics, and finance. finance, I.T., They result in information hoarding and lack of communication. This issue can become a major performance barrier.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The advice proved excellent, and for the rest of my days in the corner office I was joined at the hip with an outstanding finance executive who is now the CFO of Lindt & Sprüngli , the world’s leading chocolatier. Ultimately, it is the CEO who determines the corporate culture, whether good or bad. CEOs must watch for that.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

NASDAQ: APPL ) has named Andrea Jung , CEO of Avon  (NYSE: AVP ), as the eigth member of its board of directors. Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, stated that Jung will bring a “new dimension&# to the company’s board. Andrea Jung is the first woman and the first Asian to hold a seat on Apple’s board.Â

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 2, 2017

A company, feeling it was time for a shake-up, hires a new CEO. On a tour of the facilities, the CEO notices a guy leaning on a wall. The CEO walks up the guy and asks, “And how much money do you make a week? This new boss is determined to rid the company of all slackers. Make a list, then go introduce yourself.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Meg Whitman, 51, has been quoted saying a CEO should never stay with the same company for more than 10 years, because by that time the company needs a fresh outlook. She joined eBay in 1998 and now, 10 years later, she’s following her own advice and leaving the company she helped drive to online success.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It is the story of CEO Blake Brown who finds that they have a talent crisis and begins a journey to discover what it takes to find and keep top talent. Mark Miller commissioned a research study to interview over 7000 people from age fourteen to sixty-five and included both professional and hourly workers across all educational backgrounds.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. Shamis is CEO of Winding River Consulting and the author of Building Blocks— Case Studies of a Serial Entrepreneur. Together, we identify deficiencies and implement solutions.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I know of the CEO of a company who takes Fridays off during winter as “personal ski days.&# I can’t see one. 2 Linda C Smith December 17th, 2010 at 3:17 pm This is an interesting article and interesting that this topic would come up with female leaders at Purdue. I’ve noticed that male leaders take time off.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year). One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

It’s my stance that HP usually leaps before it looks and I am not sure that I am sold on Whitman as the new CEO. HP Has a Poor Track Record in Past CEO Selection. Former CEO Mark Hurd exercised poor judgment with a contractor, former CEO Carly Fiorina was unable to successfully forge the merger between HP and.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. They run business units and geographic regions.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 4, 2024

Since the beginning of 2024, there has been a consistent stream of CEO departures from leading CX tech firms, including AWS, NICE, Freshworks, Twilio, Vonage, Medallia, Calabrio, and Luware. This trend raises questions about what might be unsettling the leadership in these companies.

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury giant LVMH and France’s wealthiest individual, has expanded his media holdings with the acquisition of Paris Match, bringing the iconic magazine under his growing empire.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

As the CEO you have final say, but your employees can provide thoughts that you may have overlooked, which can actually add to your business plans. They will feel like you value their input, and take it into consideration when making decisions.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

The finance department is your business foundation so you need it to be one that you can trust. You as the Leader and CEO. If your CFO is doing something financially shady, SOX says that he is either doing it with you or to you. Your CFO should be Captain America with the emotional range of a rock. Customer Service Rep.

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HR Digest

JULY 29, 2020

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. Senior HR leaders will need to be able to stand alongside the CEO to make better business decisions on areas such as: Turnover. Historically, HR executives and practitioners have faced insurmountable challenges from lack of data.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Walgreens Boots Alliance leadership just announced three new members for its executive VP team with the aim of improving its healthcare services and strategy, which includes Elizabeth Burger Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), Mary Langowski President for the U.S. With 12,500 locations in the U.S.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

Pat Teague, who leads USAA’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the company’s leadership development programs that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. The HR Digest: How is USAA responding to COVID-19? How are you coping?

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Human Resources program is active, professional and responsive to the organization. CEO accepts and ideas and philosophies with employees and stakeholders. Maintains active community relations program.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

It is also the only company in the finance industry to have bucked the trend of bringing gender parity in the boardroom. What do you think most boards misunderstand or underestimate about human resources? In 2020, American Express achieved the ambitious goal of 100% pay equity in the truest sense of the word.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

CEOs and organization leaders who read only his column (or worse, only the title) and split HR as he suggests, will make a serious mistake that will destroy value for their shareholders and constituents. Why is this so obvious when it comes to Finance, and so obscure when it comes to HR? Lets be clear.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Recently, my colleagues and I interviewed dozens of these higher-ambition CEOs , all of whom taught us a valuable lesson: integrity is at the heart of great leadership. Higher-ambition CEOs know who they are, and how they lead and run their companies reflects their personal values and principles. Personal Integration.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. When HR becomes solely a talent race, boards and CEOs can miss the less obvious but equally vital value of managing both new hires and leaders who are facing increasing demands.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CEO Insider

JULY 19, 2024

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. MUFG), Japan’s largest banking group, announced that its top executives would take pay cuts in an effort to regain client trust after breaching information firewalls. The move comes as part of the bank’s response to regulatory penalties and lost business resulting from the violations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

These are the executives who run discrete businesses and control all of the resources associated with them. But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. In fact, for many chief executives I've recently worked with, the first real GM job that they had was CEO! But today no one gets that experience.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

He argues that it’s the rare CHRO who can serve as a strategic leader for the CEO and also manage the internal concerns of the organization. While I have enormous respect for Ram’s wisdom, I believe CHROs have much to offer CEOs and can be better prepared to do so without splitting HR. Human resources Strategy Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Hiring Human resources Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

A few years ago, Brad Anderson , then CEO of Best Buy, told me something both provocative and profound. Usually, if you search, there are opportunities in your current job and at your current level to display your ability to drive change, even if you are in a support function like finance or human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

Every month, I have dinner with two of the top people in any field — finance, marketing, I.T., general management, human resources, supply chain, you name it — that I have heard about through our recruiters or by word of mouth. So I began a practice I've kept up to this day. Teach others.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But building a consistently strong top leadership team is difficult for at least three reasons: the tendency to be loyal to existing members, the lack of management depth to promote from, and many CEOs’ lack of experience in many functional areas. Four months later the CEO fired him. But when it’s a team of six?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. A CEO is far removed from the day-to-day concerns of most workers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The same can be true if you are in an engineering job without the right credentials, or a senior finance job without an MBA or an advanced degree in finance. If you are in Human Resources, you can improve your technical skills with the PHR and SPHR certifications offered by the Society for Human Resource Management.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

For example, by pulling together people from finance, human resources, sales, and other product-related departments, one retailer figured out how the company could operate with one-third fewer employees in its stores. When CEOs lead these meetings, teams can raise any issues, big or small, and get them resolved in minutes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees. Mary Ellen Iskenderian is president and CEO of Women's World Banking (WWB), the world's largest network of microfinance institutions and banks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. For instance, all FDA approved medicines were purchased at one-tenth the cost for the same medicines in the U.S. Bottom line: U.S.

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