N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Modern CFOs are no longer just about bookkeeping and compliance; they are pivotal in leading with strategic thinking and mastering financial technology. Staying updated with Artificial Intelligence advancements, automation, and FinTech is essential for optimizing financial operations and planning business growth.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Our research on CEOs and their senior leadership teams reveals that regularly reevaluating and adjusting the leadership team is crucial for optimizing a company’s performance over time. Instead, leaders must reassess their leadership teams, from redefining existing roles to creating new roles to altering how different roles interact.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Welcome to the November Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, customer service, development, engagement, and more. Steve Digioia of Steve Digioia provided Leadership Series: Ron Kaufman. Communication. shared Work is Broken.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

They call it the CEO test because the intensity and consequences of these challenges grow as you move into higher levels of leadership. They believe that “to succeed in a leadership role, you have to achieve a certain threshold level of proficiency in each of the skills” highlighted in these seven tests.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

As the investor leader, you are becoming more familiar with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. . Certain functional leadership positions, and industry sectors, can be less strident on this question. If the position is operational, hire an operations manager and a finance head. .

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

From this leadership, we developed a culture of fact-based decision making. As Craig’s CFO and CAO, I always appreciated this leadership style. Build great teams In the early dark days as CFO of Footlocker, we had a struggling company that was deeply in debt. But inspirational leadership goes deeper.

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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?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

However, four main steps are proven to be effective: Step 1: Leadership alignment. Step 4: Operations 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. And why is that?

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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. Entrepreneurs are actually not risk takers,” says X.com CFO Roelof Botha. They’re risk mitigators.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 13, 2017

After all, I had earned it, having just finished a 28 year run as a CPA, cable company VP of Operations, football stadium project manager, VP of Development for another cable company, and finally, a cable company SVP of Operations. They kept the “fire in my belly” every single day I stepped into the leadership arena.

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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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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. In this post, I compare the ineptitude of BP against the leadership of Rudy Giuliani during a much bigger crisis. But as the year closes, I realize that I’ve posted 54 blogs.

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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.

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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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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

We’ve each taken on the topic of influence in leadership and are exchanging blog posts. For years, I operated with the belief that all I had to do was come up with the most brilliantly creative and strategically sound solution. Leadership is as much about learning as it is about leading – and specifically learning other perspectives.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Open lines of communication – Does your company have a hotline that operates 24/7/365 and is staffed by competent individuals who know how to properly intake and triage emergency reports or concerns? How and when are audits performed that "kick the tires" on key activities?

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

an operational strategy consultancy in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lars Sudmann, former CFO of Procter & Gamble Belgium, TEDx presenter, leadership and board advisor, and executive coach, believes that companies should provide consistent feedback to all of their employees. He also extols the virtues of self-leadership. “A

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

Sit In with the Front Liners – In our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program , we have high potential leaders shadow senior leaders for a day. So a senior director in operations might hang out with the company CFO for the day or a VP in IT might sit in with the CEO. The leadership team members didn’t lecture or drone on.

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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. I am married, have two daughters, and a dog named Edgar the Leadership Pug who exemplifies the importance of relationships to great leadership.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Ross Jeremy Hope Martha Heller Operations versus Strategy Oscar Wilde Peter Weill recruiting Reinventing the CFO: How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles and Add Greater Value Successor The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership'

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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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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. And, you operate in a fishbowl. Leadership involves uncertainty. Leadership is messier that being the founder. Here’s an example.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

in the 1980s, put it this way: “In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. With the right ‘business operations’ in place, your company will achieve success: People: In any company or organization, the real assets are the people. People come first.&#

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. Senior leaders and staff benefit from enhancing their technical knowledge with natural and learned behaviors like empathy or leadership. Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO). To accommodate the escalating speed of change and plans for the future, hire a new type of CFO.

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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. She held a similar role of CHRO at Flowserve as well as HanesBrands Inc.,

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward. Click here for more information on The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward. You just finished reading Complimentary Resource - The CFO''s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward ! by Ultimate Software. Find out how in this quick guide!

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

The firm might have relied on their rolodex to place a CFO in New York City, but this doesn’t mean they can do the same and find you a candidate in Chicago. Meanwhile, fly-by-night operations can sometimes get lucky – as they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 23, 2023

In an earnings call on Tuesday, UPS CFO Brian Newman reported that the company decreased compensation and benefits by $205 million in the second quarter by eliminating 2,500 managerial positions annually. At a Tuesday earnings call, Donald Bassell, CFO of ARKO, a convenience store operator, reported that personnel costs had increased 6.5%

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But more CEOs rarely understand the true position of their CHROs, let alone giving them the necessary backup to operate in the required capacity. The HR is supposed to be a true partner to the CEO, just like the CFO. This breeds dissatisfaction of CHRO roles and HR functions in general. That’s absolutely wrong.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Interim leader Scott Boatwright has secured a permanent position as CEO of Chipotle, and the leadership change marks an unexpected shift in the company. The new CEO at Chipotle formerly held the position of the Chief Operating Officer before being asked to act as the interim leader. Now, the position has been made permanent.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Leaders of small and medium size businesses (SMBs) often think their size lets them operate under the radar, as less attractive targets to bad guys. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? But, actually, their lack of robust security strategy and resources make them easier to penetrate. An excerpt is below. His new book is Tech Debt 2.0™:

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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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Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I also truly appreciated some of the business practices that leadership followed that I have missed in other organizations, including ones highlighted in McCord’s book. At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative.

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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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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. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Unfortunately, with the focus on profit, solution placement, timelines, and commissions, the potential for true servant-leadership has been overlooked. Indeed, it’s possible to make money AND make nice. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®. The result? Sellers sit and wait while they do them.

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