Leadership

04 Jan What Makes Someone a Good CFO vs. a Great CFO?

In this interview, Management Stack's Jennifer (Duff) Eversole offers advice to CFOs and those striving for that role. Jennifer talks about motivation, employee alignment and engagement, and the difference between a good and a great CFO. https://soundcloud.com/cfomindset/cfo-interview-jennifer-eversole-managementstackcom?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fcfomindset%2Fcfo-interview-jennifer-eversole-managementstackcom      ...

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06 Dec How to Catapult Your Career with a Personal Balanced Scorecard

The balanced scorecard strategic planning and management system is the brainchild of Robert Kaplan and David Norton.  It was originally created as a performance measurement framework which added non-financial measures to the mix of KPIs used by leaders to give them a more balanced view of organizational performance. Over time, the balance scorecard evolved into a mechanism for taking a...

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07 Oct Employee Engagement: Ask Not What Your Employees Can Do For You

What makes people passionate? In the age of knowledge work, employees crave the feeling that comes from knowing that the work they are doing is making a contribution towards the company’s success. Let’s face it, most people don’t want just a paycheck. They want to be a part of something bigger than themselves. This is the essence of employee engagement. Engaged...

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21 Sep Strategy Execution Starts Here: A Balanced Scorecard Overview

Strategy execution is one of the key ingredients in the secret sauce of successful companies. But more often than not, companies don’t effectively translate their strategy into action. In many cases, leaders state a vision and then either put it on a shelf or just assume that everyone knows what to do to get there. But in order to make...

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05 Sep Culture and Strategy Should Eat Breakfast Together

Peter Drucker famously quipped that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”.  But maybe culture and strategy should just be friends and eat breakfast together. Culture All companies have an organizational culture, whether they focus on it or not.   Culture is all about the attitude of the company, it’s beliefs and values.  It influences how people behave.  Companies like Google and Zappos have very...

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