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. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link]. For as long as I can remember, the person bonded to the CEO’s hip was the CFO.

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Blog Mission Statement Strategic Planning Brand 222

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. What are the market forces at work – are they playing fair or are they slowly (and possibly illegally) undermining your position. Know this area cold. Where are the dependencies?

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CEO Development Licensing Motivation 236

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

One of the biggest differences between B2B and B2C worlds is marketing. Many successful marketing leaders have a difficult time making the required adjustments to be successful. . While the fundamentals of marketing are universal , there are three key factors that require different applications of these fundamentals. They are:

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B2C B2B Marketing CIO 95

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. This includes creating inclusive experiences and fostering a respectful, diverse environment.

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Diversity Long-term Loyalty Brand 195

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. This is an important point for all business leaders, but in my experience, I believe marketers are particularly prone to what I call “smart syndrome.”

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

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. Be an engaged listener As a young executive and newly appointed CFO, I was fortunate to work for Jim Hageman.

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CFO Leadership Ethics Long-term 169

HR Digest

JULY 8, 2022

The one thing that will majorly influence the fate of CFO aspirants is their tech skills. According to a Gartner survey of 173 CFOs in November 2020, digital investments topped CFO agendas. Being comfortable with data, technology, and cross-disciplinary collaboration was crucial to the success of CFO candidates.

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Technology CFO Succession Finance 106

Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 31, 2015

Operational – Know how the organization works inside and out. Sit at home and map out your operational chain from start to finish. What are the market forces at work – are they playing fair or are they slowly (and possibly illegally) undermining your position. Know this area cold. Where are the dependencies? Think holistically.

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CEO Development CIO Emotional Intelligence 150

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Home About Overview News Careers Contact Blog Services Branding/Identity Executive Search Leadership Development Overview CEO Coaching Executive Peer Groups Strategic Growth Consulting Innovation Management Personal Branding Reputation Management Social Media Consulting Pro Bono Services Clients Intermidiaries Downloads Blog Contactus N2growth Home (..)

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Workers who adapt and grow with the organization in a time of accelerated change will be able to launch products and services that meet market needs. When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing. When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing.

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

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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Succession CFO Ethics Taylorism 133

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. “If But it’s not just the best workers.

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Charan Attrition Morale Survey 257

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 18, 2022

The researchers found that there isn’t really a uniform approach to corporate venturing, with many programs operated in an incredibly inefficient way. This bureaucracy is compounded by the lack of uniform reporting structure, with some reporting to the CEO, others to the CFO, and others again the chief strategy officer.

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Short-term CFO Bureaucracy Long-term 116

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. And, you operate in a fishbowl. Others do not. What’s the differentiator? Here’s an example.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 249

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

Put it this way: just because an agency placed a technical Project Manager at a software company doesn’t mean they can find the right Chief Financial Officer or Director of Marketing in the same industry. 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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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

That’s largely the ethos behind accelerators such as Entrepreneur First, who back exceptional people and help them turn their intellect into marketable products and successful businesses. Who would be CFO or COO? ” Entrepreneurial team formation. Who would be CEO?

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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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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 88

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. These charts tell a more interesting and complex story. They can be useful for you, your advisors/coaches, and board members in discussing and reviewing the readiness of your organization.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

If you’ve been in the market for new business insight technology, such as a financial services analytics solution, the benefits of these are obvious. But you must also remember that any new technology you onboard will bring change to your bank’s operations—some of which isn’t welcome just yet.

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Technology Chief Financial Officer Banking Chief Technology Officer 68

HR Digest

MAY 29, 2024

Rodney McMullen, Chairman and CEO of the company since 2014, took a pay cut to match the decline in operating profits and identical sales growth compared to the earlier year. This incentive, based on Kroger’s sales growth excluding fuel and adjusted operating profit, paid out about 24 percent of its target in 2023. billion USD.

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CEO Incentives Comparison Banking 52

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative. This would include a day spent with an installation tech and a day spent with a call center agent – preferably, in a market other than your own.

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CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Org charts can be arranged by function, process, product, market, customer, geographic, matrix, or a combination approach. These charts tell a more interesting and complex story. They can be useful for you, your advisors/coaches, and board members in discussing and reviewing the readiness of your organization.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The new CEO at Chipotle formerly held the position of the Chief Operating Officer before being asked to act as the interim leader. Hartung has spent 23 years as the CFO but his plans to retire from the role and the company have been put on hold as a result of the change in role. Now, the position has been made permanent.

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Positioning COO Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer 52

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets offers dozens of examples to clarify precisely how buying decisions can be facilitated through the right kind of questions, including an in-depth case study of a marketing manager who recognizes the need for a better website and wants to bring in an external design team. The result?

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC).

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure. No iPad mini at all. Executive exodus: In 2008, Tony Fadell, senior vice president of the iPod division, stepped down. His wife, the VP of HR at Apple, also left. Amazon's price-to-earnings ratio is now 2,767. Television.

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Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 14

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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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In today's economy, where the fast growth of emerging markets outpaces America and the developed world, if you haven't gone global yet, it's time to get moving. After lunch we would take a tour of that country's operations. [For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.]. The agenda was always the same, and it was a marathon day.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

While marketers strategize heavily around how to help consumers decide what to buy, how much time do they spend thinking about how they will pay? This area of innovation is where mobile payment companies want to play, especially in markets where such technology is less than ubiquitous. Below is an edited version of our conversation.

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CFO Loyalty Technology Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve recently been thinking about this with regard to how leaders can be more strategic, able to effectively execute the core of their business while remaining open to trends in the market and adapting to meet them. Markets demand that companies and people adapt and change constantly.

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Agility Balanced Scorecard COO CFO 19

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. However, in the best run companies, the relationship between CMOs and CFOs has changed radically and for the better.

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CFO Advertising Finance Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2012

Many people assume it's all about moving to a "pay-as-you-go" (PAYG) model and while this is certainly a big piece of it, it also involves operating versus capital expenses, subscriptions to services, and customers paying for outcomes (not technology). Why should a toy or cosmetics company own and operate multiple data centers?

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CFO Operations Budgeting Technology 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Retooling HR makes organization leaders smarter by applying their existing sophistication about finance, engineering, operations and marketing to HR and talent decisions. It does require that leaders reach across functional boundaries, but thats different than simply placing compensation and benefits under the CFO.

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Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 17