N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. As startups grow, leaders build and mature a HR/People strategy that is informed by and aligned with the overall business strategy. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. You’d be wrong.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 250

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Was struggling with sales representatives and project managers turning in expense and budget reports on-time…They told me “We have tried everything and our CFO is tired to putting out fires for us.”. I want you to focus on seeing the person who you need the finance information from as a cooperator. Cooperation Seems to Have Worked.

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Cooper Succession Finance Resistance 139

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The Unaware CEO : These CEO’s will take any report or piece of information at face value. They fail to seek clarification, validation, or proof supporting the information they have been fed. moravecglobal Here's another example of disconnected leadership and the consequences for, in this case, students, faculty and taxpayers.

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Adding this information increases the complexity of the org chart, though, and may help you see the web of connections and future implications.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Your org chart can tell a more informed story by adding compensation information, date hired, communication/leadership style, potential successors, and the development plan. Adding this information increases the complexity of the org chart, though, and may help you see the web of connections and future implications.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s not easy for big companies to innovate. Moreover, the skills that are cherished and rewarded for achieving current results differ from those that aid in discovery and experimentation, both of which are needed to drive innovation. global information solutions company.

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Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. How should they better prioritize innovation? “We’re really not budgeted for that,” the leadership team explained.

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CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

CMOs and CFOs don't always see eye-to-eye. An article published in CFO.com indicates that in one study, more CMOs report sharing marketing information with their CFOs than CFOs reported receiving. We found that we shared a passion for finance, the stock market, innovation, and marketing (and, candidly, politics).

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CFO Advertising Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

We genuinely believe we are gathering relevant information that will help us decide objectively whether the person is a good fit for the job. And sameness blocks performance and innovation. Diversity, on the other hand, spurs innovation. Take, for example, the hiring process. Hardly anyone raised their hand.

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Power Management Diversity CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

After all, what company on earth enjoyed greater access to more insights more quickly from more people searching for more information? Google, of course, is hardly the only digital juggernaut supersaturated in an embarrassment of informational riches. That's the essence of the Big Data business case.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Ironically, this allows them to actually gain stature as the “innovators” are discredited and C-suite power shifts back to how it was. Many CEOs underestimate the impact of mental models in the innovation process, often assuming that “thinking outside the box” exercises address the issue.

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CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It is time to connect these groups, elevate analytics to a strategic corporate practice, and assign executive leadership to oversee it. The CAO should be under an executive that naturally spans all of the business units that have analytical needs, such as the Chief Strategy Officer, the CFO, and the COO.

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Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

We were discussing his firm’s approach to teaching leadership. ” This is a fundamental gap in leadership approaches. We still believe that the essence of leadership is about influencing others to do what we want them to do. Our leadership measures and language also illustrate this gap.

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Influence Six Sigma Open-book Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The question is how to equip employees with the skills to handle complexities such as creating innovative solutions to emergent problems, understanding new markets, and pushing back on the "status quo." At Allianz, the program was initiated and supported by the company CFO. Take Allianz, a German financial services company.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” These information-focused leaders emerged as the world changed and the capabilities that companies needed shifted over time. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

And the lessons learned from political uprisings can inform businesses on how to adjust to the new, increasingly transparent world we live in. Central in all HDS thought leadership efforts are customer stories. "If Would you want to start a Facebook page and let anyone weigh-in with what they thought of you, and of banking in general?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Though CEOs may tolerate that executives keep information from them at times, they expect straightforward answers when they ask straightforward questions. They are not the traits typically found in leadership textbooks, but then again, the majority of leadership textbooks aren’t written by CEOs. Insiders are good-humored.

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How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

” This chitchat can often provide crucial information about the other side’s interests that might help you later. That positive, innovative approach is not only far more likely to lead you to a beneficial solution, but also to a place of trust. . “Don’t rush to the substance,” says Weiss.

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Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. focus and vision.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

Use recommenders to make it easier to gain better insight into customers while they’re getting better information about you. In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. Test innovative ideas? Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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