Leading by the Numbers

Finance professionals sometimes have difficulty making the transition to broader leadership roles. There are five critical changes they need to navigate to succeed. A few years ago, the chief financial officer of a large company told me that he estimated that his organization had only about a 30% s...

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Main Author: Hanson, Byron
Format: Journal Article
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2016
Online Access:http://sloanreview.mit.edu/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37959
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description Finance professionals sometimes have difficulty making the transition to broader leadership roles. There are five critical changes they need to navigate to succeed. A few years ago, the chief financial officer of a large company told me that he estimated that his organization had only about a 30% success rate when promoting finance people to leadership roles in or across business units. The CFO wasn’t happy with that rate; he wanted a better pipeline of executives with a finance background, because the company’s business model and strategic choices required leaders to be well versed in finance. That conversation prompted me to explore — through a combination of interviews, a survey of 35 finance professionals, and a literature review — the question of whether leadership development is different for people from finance backgrounds. In the process, I identified five critical transitions that finance professionals need to navigate when taking on a broader role in an organization.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-379592017-01-30T14:10:18Z Leading by the Numbers Hanson, Byron Finance professionals sometimes have difficulty making the transition to broader leadership roles. There are five critical changes they need to navigate to succeed. A few years ago, the chief financial officer of a large company told me that he estimated that his organization had only about a 30% success rate when promoting finance people to leadership roles in or across business units. The CFO wasn’t happy with that rate; he wanted a better pipeline of executives with a finance background, because the company’s business model and strategic choices required leaders to be well versed in finance. That conversation prompted me to explore — through a combination of interviews, a survey of 35 finance professionals, and a literature review — the question of whether leadership development is different for people from finance backgrounds. In the process, I identified five critical transitions that finance professionals need to navigate when taking on a broader role in an organization. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37959 http://sloanreview.mit.edu/ http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/leading-by-the-numbers/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology restricted
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37959