Strengths: Leadership skills required for CFO

Author: Frederick C. Millar
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: Without a doubt, in today's unpredictable market, companies are increasingly expecting finance professionals to play a stronger leadership role to ensure shareholder value. If you want to understand what is being sought in the recruitment and development of finance leaders, then you can be certain that this book is a must-read.
This book introduces how eight world-class companies transformed their CFOs into outstanding business leaders. When you strive to enhance and broaden your financial leadership capabilities, does your company provide you with the necessary guidance? If you are already a finance leader, are you prepared to be tomorrow's business leader? Whether you are at the top of the ladder or climbing it, The Edge——Leadership Skills CFOs Need will show you how today's best companies help their CFOs strengthen those critical non-financial leadership skills. These skills are decisive factors for success in today's complex leadership landscape.
Dr. Michael D. Schwab, a renowned executive leadership consultant, and Chief Financial Advisor Frederick C. Millar have presented in-depth insights into the art of transforming talented finance managers into outstanding business leaders through detailed case studies of eight world-leading companies. The authors have carefully selected eight representative companies from dozens of excellent companies: Gas Chemical Commodities Co., Inc., Interscience, Bristol Myers Squibb, Dana, Northern Telecom, Solvay Polymer, Sinovest Financial, Unilever, and W.L. Gore.
Through highly detailed descriptions of each company, this book introduces the various efforts undertaken by these world-famous multinational corporations. By summarizing, it presents an advanced concept and development trends of the "Edge" for finance managers in today's international enterprises, which is the outstanding value of this book.
The "Edge" is not only a skill that finance professionals should possess, but also an indispensable reference manual for companies that expect their CFOs to have comprehensive emotional intelligence and leadership skills and to develop these skills at the highest level of the organization. Whether you are a finance professional or a business manager, reading and studying this book will bring you great benefits.