Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

The leading candidate is the scheming CFO played by Frederic March, a passionless, colorless bean counter groping for power, but with no vision beyond increasing dividend payouts to stockholders. This 1954 movie brought the truly timeless and consequential components of leadership into focus for me.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. moravecglobal Here's another example of disconnected leadership and the consequences for, in this case, students, faculty and taxpayers.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Even though Musk’s approach doesn’t necessarily provide a blueprint to be copied any more than Steve Jobs’ approach did (even though both individuals got results), it does offer lessons to be learned and applied in our own leadership. This emotional shutoff valve could make him callous, but it also made him a risk-seeking innovator. “He

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product management — at every level — is a leadership role within the organization. Smart product managers know the value of having allies in the CFO’s office. Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. Where there is disagreement there is an inherent potential for growth and development.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. What are today’s most common leadership mistakes? Thank you all.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

However, four main steps are proven to be effective: Step 1: Leadership alignment. Failed transformations represent a considerable setback and widen the gap between a business and its customers. Step 2: Culture alignment. Step 3: Strategy alignment. Step 4: Operations alignment.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Understanding the Role of a Chief Experience Officer The Chief Experience Officer (CXO) might not have the same name recognition as a CEO or CFO, but their influence is felt across every aspect of a company’s strategy and operations. But the CXO’s influence goes beyond data.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Culture Leadership Charge: The Right Culture Matters. David shares a better way to meet your leadership challenges.” ” Find Beth on Twitter at @bethbeutler.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

What shared interests can you learn about that you can combine to catalyze innovation for your organization? 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. Thanks for sharing this one.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. Your CFO should be Captain America with the emotional range of a rock.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Accountability versus Ownership “Be yourself [period] Everyone else is taken” Bibliomotion CIO Career Path Corporate Board Cost versus Innovation David C.

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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.”. The finance team in a Health Care Company. started by asking: What do you want the people in sales and the project managers to do?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Senior leaders and staff benefit from enhancing their technical knowledge with natural and learned behaviors like empathy or leadership. With creativity’s ties to innovation and the global economy experiencing a significant growth mode, this personal ability was transferable across a range of organizational needs. For Organizations.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. Leadership involves uncertainty. Leadership is messier that being the founder. One of these can derail things pretty easily. Here’s an example.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2015

You cannot dare do the same thing as an entrepreneur when you are still the HR manager, marketing guru, office manager, janitor, tech guy, sales staff, CFO and CEO. It is an opportunity to create and be innovative. With some of these other jobs, you can leave behind the workload and take some time out. You can stop working at 3 p.m.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Orientation toward innovation and creativity. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. Decision making style.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As equality has risen up the corporate agenda in recent years, a growing number of companies are creating a dedicated leadership role to focus on diversity and inclusion, with around half of S&P 500 firms having a chief diversity officer. They also believed these qualities were the most important for successful EDI leadership.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

Too often we leave the worries and cares about money to the CFO’s office. Of the three P’s listed above, the one that typically receives the least focus by product managers is profits (or perhaps more clearly stated, revenue ). 2 Responses Leadercast , on July 12, 2009 at 7:39 pm said: I totally agree with your three p’s.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. Employee Engagement and Leadership Expert Explores Evolution of Leadership HR.com, November 2012. The Innovation Catalysts Harvard Business Review, June 2011. Neuroscience of Engagement Neuro Leadership Journal, 2009.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2020

Something about unjustified criticism not only leads to greater motivation and innovation, but leads to greater satisfaction with the organization that you are working for. But when the time came to talk about purchasing the company, the CFO still asked Hastings for a number. It was a non-starter for the CFO.

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Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

I recently spoke with the CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing company about his new CFO who was poised to attend our flagship program for senior executives, Leadership at the Peak. She was respected by colleagues and employees, and over time had become the right-hand assistant to the CFO. No one turned a head. What can be done?

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

Only those interested in leadership as more than mere ego gratification have a chance to build something that outlasts them. The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. When a CEO becomes a household name, that CEO may well need to get his own house in order.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2020

Something about unjustified criticism not only leads to greater motivation and innovation, but leads to greater satisfaction with the organization that you are working for. But when the time came to talk about purchasing the company, the CFO still asked Hastings for a number. It was a non-starter for the CFO.

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CFO Motivation Industry Participative 78

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. Communication/Leadership Style. These charts tell you where employees currently are, but not where they’ve been or where they’re going next. Potential Successors.

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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. Knowing the communication/leadership style of your coworkers can help you better utilize their skills and contextualize their input. 4.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

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. To reverse this, senior leadership took a number of steps.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

People often ask me why it's so hard for big companies to be innovative. But that doesn't mean innovation can't happen, even in the biggest, most entrenched firm. By establishing the Innovation Office , and empowering me with resources to run it, he sent a crucial signal to the organization that innovation is on top of his agenda.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

But this makes the still lingering CMO-CFO disconnect even more significant, as both executives are now stewards of that critical corporate data. We found that we shared a passion for finance, the stock market, innovation, and marketing (and, candidly, politics). But determining which sales are truly incremental isn't always easy.

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CFO Advertising Finance Marketing 10

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. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The appointment of Mary Barra as CEO-to-be of General Motors is a signal to car-lovers everywhere that the company is serious about its products and vehicle innovation. The centrality of innovation to the future — electric cars, hybrids, self-driving cars, and beyond — makes her experience pivotal. Start early, and go far.

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Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Employees and other constituents should expect HR to hold leaders accountable for fiduciary and strategic risks, just as a CFO would be expected to hold leaders accountable for a risky pattern of using corporate funds or resources. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No. HR can and should demand more of leaders, and vice versa.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Although Nestle's consumers and "shoppers," as they are referred to, were about 80% female, only 3% of managers in the company's leadership pipeline were women. Yet the all-male leadership team had only a single Swiss national. The focus in the first phase has been on the visible promotion of women to the leadership ranks.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2018

Hiring a new person is an opportunity to do something differently than before — to innovate. ” It’s not just new managers who make this mistake — a few years ago, I was invited to interview for the CFO role at a fast-growing tech company. This isn’t leadership. “If only I knew how to do that.”

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Learning Curve Management CFO Delegation 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. But those are exactly the kinds of values conversations (privacy, exclusivity, fairness, and intellectual property) innovative organizations need to have.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And sameness blocks performance and innovation. Diversity, on the other hand, spurs innovation. In research spanning decades, Columbia professor Katherine Phillips has repeatedly found that, when tasked to innovate, teams that include diverse members and that value the contributions of all their members outperform homogenous teams.

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