Fit in, Stand Out: Mastering the FISO Factor for Success in Business and Life

by Blythe McGarvie

Overview

A veteranFortune 500CFO and business innovator shares her breakthrough program to tap the leader within

“Blythe McGarvie incites readersto think about the connections between success, ethics, and financial prowess.”
—Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft

During her extensive experience studying effectiveness in business, leadership expert Blythe McGarvie uncovered a vital lesson: successful leaders are systems thinkers. By managing the two forces that power the essential dynamic of business systems, integration (fitting in) and transformation (standing out), managers and executives will generate astonishing results: solutions are created, teamwork grows, change is embraced, and effectiveness is improved and rewarded.

Now, in Fit In, Stand Out, McGarvie presents her breakthrough program thatwill help you become a more effective leader. She reveals how integration and transformation function as the yin and yang of business, working together and balancing each other to form the two sides of leadership success. By mastering these imperatives through the revolutionary FISO FACTOR, you will become a team player while simultaneously advocating change and fostering long-term growth.

Fit In, Stand Out provides the keys to mastering the six agents of FISO (financial acumen, integrity, alliances, learning, perspective, and global citizenship), and the attitudes, behaviors, and characteristics (ABCs) you need to wield them.

Blythe J. McGarvie is president and founder of LIF Group and serves on the boards of Accenture, Pepsi Bottling Group, St. Paul Travelers, Lafarge NA, and Wawa. She is a former CFO and in 1995was one of only 10 female CFOs in the Fortune 500. She has spoken worldwide to business and academic audiences on leadership, globalization, and business strategy. LIF group offers a global perspective for clients to achieve profitable growth and can be reached at www.LIFgroup.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071460798
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date:	10/28/2005
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Blythe J. McGarvie is president and founder of LIF Group and serves on the boards of Accenture, Pepsi Bottling Group, St. Paul Travelers, Lafarge NA, and Wawa. She is a former CFO and in 1995 was one of only 10 female CFOs in the Fortune 500. She has spoken worldwide to business and academic audiences on leadership, globalization, and business strategy. LIF group offers a global perspective for clients to achieve profitable growth and can be reached at www.LIFgroup.com.

What People are Saying About This

Ken Duberstein

"A practical, insightful, hands-on blueprint for leadership success. McGarvie is a must read for anyone wanting to scale the proverbial ladder!"
—former White House Chief of Staff

Eleanor Bloxham

"Fit In Stand Out encompasses both realistic perspectives and visionary aspirations to create a framework that clearly and compellingly delineates the elements of successful leadership."
—CEO, The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance and author of Economic Value Management and Value Led Organizations

Mohanbir Sawhney

"Blythe McGarvie eloquently reveals the secrets of leadership as going beyond the seemingly opposite demands of fitting in versus standing out. She combines wit with wisdom to provide insights that will make this book fit into your life as an aspiring leader, and yet stand out from everything else you have read about leadership."
—McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology, Director, Center for Research in Technology & Innovation, Kellogg School of Management

Ram Charan

"Blythe distills what really works from real life experiences in order to share how to be a successful leader."
—bestselling coauthor of Execution and Confronting Reality

Douglas Conant

"From a CEO perspective, Blythe's approach is music to my ears. She advocates a very healthy, integrity-laden, competence-based any situation. It is a most solid model for the corporate world to follow."
—President & CEO, The Campbell Soup Company

Cathryn C. Cranston

"Blythe McGarvie frames the essential elements for leadership excellence, and creates a compelling, programmatic approach for success."
—Publisher, Harvard Business Review

Steve Ballmer

"Blythe McGarvie incites readers to think about the connections between success, ethics, and financial prowess."
—CEO, Microsoft

Joseph Grenny

"Now is the right time for anyone aspiring to executive ranks to absorb the wise advice McGarvie shares generously in this highly practical book."
—bestselling co-author of Crucial Confrontations

Gordon Grand III

"Blythe McGarvie's insights on the professional and personal characteristics that make for successful leaders are invaluable benchmarks for organizations who need to assess their senior management."
—Managing Director, Global Practice Leader, Financial Officer's Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates

James M. Kilts

"Fit In, Stand Out is a valuable tool for helping managers at every stage of their careers align their goals with those of the company."
—Chairman, President and CEO, The Gillette Company

Editorial Reviews

As a pioneering CFO and a board member for several international companies, Blythe McGarvie has enjoyed a career that has taught her much about the attributes of a successful leader. In Fit In Stand Out, she shows leaders how to combine the forces of integration (Fit In) and transformation (Stand Out) to get ahead in business. McGarvie offers the attitudes, behaviors and characteristics that help leaders learn the financial acuity, integrity, linkages, learning, perspective and global citizenship that create a solid platform of leadership. Copyright © 2006 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

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