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Advancing women in leadership
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- 01 Sep 2023
- Theresa Agovino
An interview with Linkage CEO Jennifer McCollum, who has spent nearly three decades helping women in leadership overcome hurdles. She discusses the major obstacles that keep women from leadership roles, and how they can overcome them.
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How to shine at spontaneous speaking when put on the spot
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- 01 Sep 2023
- Matt Abrahams
Mastering the art of spontaneous speaking is important for leaders. Matt Abrahams suggests that anyone can become proficient at this using the right tactics and behaviours. He offers key strategies that include avoiding conventional leadership responses in favour of establishing genuine connections, and prioritizing brevity while delivering clear messages. He also highlights the need to speak authentically without the pressure to be perfect - which means daring to be dull.
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Stories from the front lines: Leadership accounts from the globe's top supply chain executives
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- 01 Sep 2023
- Brian Straight
The article highlights the book 'From Source to Sold: Stories of Leadership in Supply Chain', by Radu Palamariu and Knut Alicke, which offers insights from 26 top global supply chain executives on leadership skills and decision-making. One of the questions the book attempts to answer is why relatively few supply chain professionals have become CEOs. The article includes a diagram showing the attributes of the ideal supply chain leader.
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Leadership storytelling
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- 01 Jul 2023
- Lance Lamoreaux, Mari Shine
A look at the power of storytelling in leadership, emphasizing that stories are more effective than statistics and data in persuading and inspiring others. Topics include examples of successful leadership through storytelling, how stories can connect with and motivate others, and best practices for effective storytelling in leadership.
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Simon Sinek - 'knowing the why'
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- 01 May 2023
- Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
In 2009, Sinek delivered a TED Talk that explored his notion that all great leaders share a trait - what he called 'knowing the why'. Having spent a career redefining servant leadership, here he reflects on his biggest leadership lessons learned.
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Risk-taking is critical for women in accounting
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- 24 Mar 2023
- Daniel Hood
A willingness to take chances helped take them to the top, female leaders in the profession say. The article shares stories told by female panellists at the American Institute of CPAs' Engage conference. The panellists highlighted the importance of mentorship for advancing women in accounting, but they also particularly emphasised the importance of risk-taking - for example, by relocating, learning new skills, and trying things you may not be sure will work.
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Three daily leadership habits that build high-trust relationships
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Jennifer Colosimo
Jennifer Colosimo shares three proven daily habits that can help leaders create a high-trust culture that retains employees and drives business results. She has found that the most important element to creating lasting leadership success is building, extending, and restoring trust among teams.
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A new leadership model for the future of business and work
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Mostafa Sayyadi, Michael J.Provitera
The authors view transformational leadership as the most strategic resource for competitive advantage. They describe a model they call the 'Magic Spark Model', for developing future transformational leaders in companies. It offers a new way of leadership succession planning, involving practical case studies that allow leadership trainees to solve real-world problems.
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Helping women to close the influence gap: Getting your voice heard as a female leader
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Carla Miller
Female leaders across the globe are experiencing the Influence Gap and this is a systemic problem, not a problem with women. Leading UK leadership coach Carla Miller discusses the advice in her book, 'Closing the Influence Gap', a practical guide for women in leadership positions who want to be heard.
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A passion for information
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- 14 Feb 2023
- Mark Samuels
A profile of Barry Panayi, the chief data and insight officer at John Lewis Partnership, is presented. He has honed his data leadership skills and is putting his obsession with data to use for John Lewis, where data science, analytics and business intelligence is an increasingly important function.
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Leadership in the age of big data
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- 01 Jan 2023
- Hans Weemaes
The article discusses the need for finance leaders to recognize the importance of data analytics to become effective in their roles. The need to ensure that employees work in a culture that sustains collaboration and exchange of ideas and information by leaders is noted. It discusses ways in which management accountants can demonstrate leadership such as competence in financial planning and imparting technical accounting knowledge.
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Use your options
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- 01 Jan 2023
- Carol Kauffman, David Noble
In this article two leadership coaches offer an approach, called the “four stances,” to help leaders improve their interpersonal communication. Leaders should identify which of the stances - 'Lean in', 'Lean back', 'Lean with' or 'Don't lean' - is their default, make a plan for using alternative ones in various situations, and be ready to pivot if an approach is not working.
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Improve your one-on-one meetings
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- 01 Nov 2022
- Steven G Rogelberg
One-on-one meetings with your direct reports can be a highly effective leadership tool, says Steven G.Rogelberg. Managers who fully embrace 1:1 meetings can make their teams' day-to-day output more efficient, build trust and improve employee engagement.
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How emotionally intelligent is your team? 6 tips to responding to a heated argument
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- 01 Oct 2022
- Anja van Beek
Executive coach Anja van Beek gives advice for leaders wishing to develop their emotional intelligence. She suggests ways to take a pause, understand the other person's perspective and tactfully share your viewpoint with team members.
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How to create a psychological safety zone
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- 01 Oct 2022
- Lauren E.Miller
Research shows that organizations that create a safe space for open dialogue will often flush out human error more quickly than those which do not practice psychological safety. The article suggests ways to build trust at work.
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Human-centric leaders are psychologically safe leaders: How to become a human-centric leader
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- 01 Jul 2022
- Bill Howatt
Advice on becoming a human-centric leader and creating a psychologically safe workplace for your team. Daily practices to follow are suggested, including being clear on purpose, asking more questions (and making fewer statements) and reflecting on your leadership style.
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Strategies for individual leadership
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- 01 Jul 2022
- Mark L.Frigo, Kathleen Stokes
Advice on translating great business strategy to create great leadership strategy for both individuals and high-performance teams. The article contains a short interview with Kathleen Stokes, who gives her perspective on leadership driven strategy as a finance leader.
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The pitfalls of poor communication
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- 01 Mar 2022
- Manny Sicre
Leaders who communicate poorly or fail to share important bad news with employees often lose credibility and effectiveness. Manny Sicre explains how to make your communication more effective, covering communicating decisions and knowing your audience.
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Get your leadership team right
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- 01 Jan 2022
- Paul Leinwand, Mahadeva Matt, Blair Sheppard
CEOs need to fundamentally rethink their leadership teams, so that top executives focus on advancing meaningful change rather than managing the current business. The authors provide some steps to follow.
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The many skills of the CFO
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- 01 Jan 2022
- Frank Manzi, Mark Martinelli
An overview of the many skills required from a Chief Financial Officer (CFO), honed throughout their career based on a combination of education, experience, professional attitude, continuous learning and ethics. The path to the top is often paved with operational knowledge and an ability to make the financial connections to the big issues driving the business.
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The importance of effective leadership during a turnaround
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- 01 Jan 2022
- Lawrence Gardner
Sometimes the simplest things make the biggest differences. Turnaround consultant Lawrence Gardner explains why the most successful company turnarounds are built on strong leadership. He outlines the specific aspects of leadership that must be displayed to achieve positive results at struggling businesses.
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From controller to CFO
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- 01 Dec 2021
- Razzak Jallow, Mike Whitmire, Greg Vecellio
Experience as a Financial Controller is key to becoming a CFO, but leadership and technology skills are also important. Those who wish to reach CFO/FD level must stretch themselves by transitioning to being operational and strategic leaders too.
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Lessons from an agile product owner
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- 01 Nov 2021
- Esteban Quiros
The agile project management methodology enables finance professionals to hone their leadership and organizational skills. Esteban Quiros shares valuable lessons learnt from using Agile for the Procter & Gamble (P&G) Source-to-Pay global platform.
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Observations from a Professor serving as Dean
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- 01 Sep 2021
- Douglas A.Shackelford
Drawing on his experience as an accounting professor serving as dean of a business school, Douglas A.Shackelford gives advice for accounting academics interested in academic leadership positions.
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Achieve agile leadership in three steps
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- 01 Sep 2021
- Alex Winnkicker
Outlines a three-step process for becoming an agile leader in the post-pandemic world and beyond.
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The new script for leadership in flux: leading in the post-pandemic era of change
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- 01 Aug 2021
- April Rinne
Leaders need to resist the pressure to take swift action and instead take time to reflect on decisions, says April Rinne.
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Five essential coaching skills for leaders
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- 01 May 2021
- Karim Harbott
With agile leadership as much about developing people as it is about setting the direction of an organisation, the author outlines five key coaching skills to help modern leaders thrive in an uncertain world.
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Are you really listening?
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- 01 Mar 2021
- Adam Bryant, Kevin Sharer
When leaders listen in a focused, attentive and systematic way, they are better able to pick up on signs of danger and opportunity say authors Bryant and Sharer. Provides practical advice on how leaders can learn to listen more effectively.
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Closing the diversity gap
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- 01 Feb 2021
- Loreal Jiles, Diane Jules, Brad Monterio
A comprehensive study finds that greater equity and inclusion are needed to close a diversity gap within the US accounting profession, particularly at leadership levels.
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We call it Transpersonal!
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- 01 Jan 2021
- John Knights
John Knights discusses new leadership and education needs for the information age. He explains the stages of the Transpersonal Leadership Development Journey (TLDJ), a development program for leaders devised by John and his colleagues.
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