HR Digest

MAY 2, 2024

Instead Google’s job relocation efforts in India and Mexico will ensure those positions are filled up by employees outside the States. The individuals manage the critical functioning of a majority of Google’s services, which makes it all the more unexpected to see the company choose to let them go.

Trends 59

Trends Decentralization CFO Bureaucracy 59

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. How to Increase Your Executive Presence.

Charisma 65

Charisma CFO CEO Execution 65

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. Always be positive. Words like certain, clearly and positive are appropriate to the new and confident you. Approachable.

Charisma 222

Charisma Leadership CFO Learning-by-Doing 222

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When you advocate a position, whoever is listening is voting in their head. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. You’re not managing your energy well. If you are tired, overworked or rushed, you are making mistakes and the power of your position amplifies the negative impact of those mistakes. They either agree or disagree.

Delegation 250

Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 250

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Just having a definition for what constitutes acceptable behavior is a positive step in containing the crazies. Understanding the WIIFM Factor : Understanding the other person’s WIIFM (What’s In It For Me) position is critical. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

Blog 313

Blog Brand CEO Consultative 313

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting.

Blog 417

Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Jill explains how you can pluck out the meaningful messages and take positive action.” John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shared Bell Labs Designing a New Phone System Using Idealized Design. In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company.

Leadership Development 331

Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 331

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The perceived need to learn something new is inversely proportional to the rank of a manager. Be sure to take into account if the employee has had to switch roles multiple times, though, or make huge changes in order to accommodate different managers’ expectations. That’s really short-sighted.

Leadership Styles 87

Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Seeing these connections and implications may remind you of the need to be an active learner as a leader (not a finished product). “The perceived need to learn something new is inversely proportional to the rank of a manager. These situations can stifle typical developmental-progress trajectories. That’s really short-sighted.

Leadership Styles 78

Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Jill explains how you can pluck out the meaningful messages and take positive action.” John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shared Bell Labs Designing a New Phone System Using Idealized Design. In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company.

Leadership Development 201

Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 201

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

There’s no manager to select team members, much less to assign them the roles they’ll undertake. Who would be CFO or COO? For instance, white guys with a prominent firm on their resume were highly likely to be given the top job, whereas Asian women were much more likely to get lowly positions. Assigning roles.

Team 105

Team Entrepreneur COO CFO 105

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. Satisfy the motive and you will manage the behavior. With a high goal orientation score, you are motivated to move toward goals, pleasure or something positive. Effective managers are typically more oriented toward details, as are functions like quality control and accounting.

Motivation 100

Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. The trust of many in a system that has been the most spectacular generator of innovation in history was damaged by the unbridled greed of a few. It’s impossible to build a high-trust organization around a caste system.

Kaplan 100

Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. And sameness blocks performance and innovation.

Power 12

Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? This is the tie that binds us and we live it every day. Will it work?

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. Such friction is destructive — and a huge missed opportunity, because the CFO and the strategy head are far more effective when they collaborate. Tapping the most promising growth spots.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. The old way was information management; the new way is information intelligence. The old way was cost management; the new way is driving business transformation and accelerating growth.

CIO 8

CIO Innovation Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics. One CFO said that her valuation should be considered on a per idea basis instead of a per earnings multiple.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." ​ Tamara Dowling ​"As a catalyst for positive change, I have a history of engaging board and staff members to generate new ideas and increase overall performance. ​ ​1.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

An article published in CFO.com indicates that in one study, more CMOs report sharing marketing information with their CFOs than CFOs reported receiving. In that same study, most CFOs believed that marketing could have a positive impact on profitability but 40% of them didn't know if CMOs were even trying to do so.

CFO 8

CFO Advertising Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Over the past 10 years, the hospital’s managers have transformed their institution from the usual, grim, human-repair shop into a bright and comforting place. Innovating for Value in Health Care. ” Making the Rotterdam Eye Hospital a more pleasant environment has had a number of positive effects. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Airlines CFO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Constellation has developed an Innovation Center , an unconventional permanent facility within its headquarters. People come from different locations to the Innovation Center for "ideation" (brainstorming), decision-making, and planning. What's distinctive about having a physical innovation center? It's a positive virus.

Brainstorming 15

Brainstorming CFO Innovation Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. Don't get me wrong.

Execution 15

Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

The persona of the next-generation CIO is evolving from Chief Infrastructure Officer through Chief Integration Officer and Chief Intelligence Officer to Chief Innovation Officer. For a CIO or other technology leader to make the move successfully from infrastructure to innovation, three key building blocks must be in place.

CIO 8

CIO Succession Fast Follower Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. The benefits of the front-line driving improvements include pride of ownership that sustains the changes, less worry for managers about whether the changes will be adopted, and reduced costs for outside consultants.

Attrition 15

Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the past two years, only 30% of open C-suite positions in the nonprofit sector were filled by an internal candidate ( the rate at for-profits is 60% of positions ). Senior management encouraged the employee’s creativity and coached her on how to implement her idea. Talent retention is a challenge at any organization.

Development 8

Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk. 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. More >>.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shared Podcast: Increasing the Capability of the Organization. John summarizes, “Changing how organizations are managed makes a huge difference in people’s lives. Marcella recaps, “I support positive organizations where both people and performance thrive.

Leadership Development 150

Leadership Development Development Leadership Ethics 150

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. The benefits of the front-line driving improvements include pride of ownership that sustains the changes, less worry for managers about whether the changes will be adopted, and reduced costs for outside consultants.

Attrition 13

Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

CEOs cannot manage their silos via hub-and-spoke and expect digital expertise to be properly incorporated in key decisions. ” Immelt elevated marketing and digital media when he promoted Beth Comstock to vice chair, while other positions, including that of the CFO, are at the senior vice president level. Cut layers.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Given that senior leaders often share the same worldview as the departing CEO and could prove to be out of touch with the changes sweeping through the industry, the board looks to the third level of management. Boards must remain engaged during the grooming and transition of new leaders.

CEO 13

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” But companies will need new positions as well.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. It would position Lumiscape’s technology platform for growth as the smart-cities movement showed signs of taking off. state and a few European countries. “Higher! .

Case Study 8

Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

A new Conference Board study, as CFO magazine reported , reveals some startling growth in greener products at a dozen big companies like Kimberly-Clark, Dow, GE, Siemens, Toshiba, and more. The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations. So why are sustainable products surging now?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

She also used them to scout for talent, keeping an eye out for young managers ready to move into more-senior positions and perhaps transfer to headquarters. The branch manager, Meryem Kartal, met them in the lobby and introduced a few staff members before showing them to her office. “He hates change.” “So what?

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Banking Agility 8