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Bennett Stewart is an expert in shareholder value and corporate performance management, and CEO of EVA Dimensions, a financial technology firm that provides software tools, databases and training and support packages that help companies to test and automate Best-Practice EVA, and investors to earn excess returns alpha. This article was excerpted with permission from the publisher, John Wiley & Sons, from “Best-Practice EVA” (March 2013).[…] Continue Reading »
Why asking good questions is essential for effective management; what percentage of CFOs think the country will dodge a double-dip recession; and why your co-workers might be psychopaths.
It’s all in this week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief for CFOs:
- 3 types of questions that great leaders always ask
- Why saying “no” is a key business strategy for CFOs
- Business execs are more likely to be psychopaths, study says
- CFOs look for signs of a double-dip recession
- Bank of America considers laying off 30,000 workers
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What employees really care about; annoying habits you should avoid; and how many years it took one man to eat 25,000 Big Macs.
It’s all on this past week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief for CFOs:
- 6 tips for making big decisions
- How to unlock employee motivation
- Wisconsin man consumes 25,000th Big Mac
- Accounting boards make adjustments to “fair value” guidelines
- CFOs reveal most annoying office behaviors
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Research firm Accountemps recently asked more than 1,000 CFOs what their favorite interview questions were. 42% of CFOs preferred questions that related to the applicant’s personal attributes. 34% said that they preferred questions about a candidate’s qualifications and 24% were partial to job or company-specific questions.
While standard interview questions such as “Where do you see yourself in five years?” and “What are your strengths and weaknesses?” were cited at a high rate, CFOs also had more interesting choices for their “‘go-to” questions.[…] Continue Reading »
This post was written by Cindy Kraft, the CFO Coach, who is a career and personal-brand strategist for CFOs and corporate finance executives.
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief for CFOs — tracks feedback from leading CFOs and senior finance executives. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter.
Last week, we asked: What do you think of March Madness?[…] Continue Reading »
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