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New Global Business Leadership Book
Shaking the Globe
www.blythemcgarvie.com
Blythe McGarvie launches new website: www.BlytheMcGarvie.com.

Two new WEBCASTS!

Blythe McGarvie speaks on leadership for an SAS® program, "Requirements of a 21st Century CFO: Meeting the Challenges."

Blythe McGarvie speaks on "Creating Financial Acumen Within Your Company” for the "Fifty Lessons" digital executive leadership program.

"New Speeches"

 
Creating Organizational Success for Your CEO and Your Shareholders NEW!
“Innovation from the CFO Suite”
"New Articles"
   
Building the Future: The New Office of the Chariman
Congratulations: You're Hired! Due Diligence
Congratulations: You're Hired! Integration Planning

Fostering Integrity:
Seven Steps to a StraightTalk Culture

Developing Difference-Makers
 

Higgins-Kreichser Associates, an affiliate, writes provocative, insightful executive briefings.

"New Entertainment & Media Research"
   
Ecosystems-Based Competitive Advantage & Content
The ''Long Tail'' Drives Upside in Media Stocks

Internet advertising outlook

Television advertisting outoook
  Laura Martin, an affiliate, spent two decades analyzing industry trends for media and entertainment.

Blythe McGarvie

LIF Group provides strategic and financial advice and counsel to help clients achieve their near and long-term economic objectives and enhance their corporate governance. The firm specializes in financial services, consumer goods, manufacturing and service industries who need leaders to drive changes for innovation and growth. We take an integrated approach and provide a global perspective to help companies grow by maximizing the potential of their three key resources: money, people and information.

With experience working with and for executives from Fortune 500 companies and privately held companies, LIF Group helps you meet your objectives. Using a proven strategic framework will help keep the company focused and executives to be effective. This framework can be adapted to your particular objectives and different strategies. We call this Financial Focus: The 5 Step Process.

In addition, we offer a 2 and ½ day seminar of Finance for Non-finance Professionals using seven key guideposts so business partners learn to navigate in your particular business and competitive environment. Clients who have participated in this seminar have shown remarkable results in their understanding and use of financial concepts.

To see a range of our services, click here for Affiliates.

Watch Blythe McGarvie discuss global business on PBS's What Matters television, hosted by Cathy Lewis (video feed: streaming | download).

Cathy Higgins releases volume 6, issue 2 of the Straight Talk Coach: Becoming Relevant Today: What Really Matters.

Blythe McGarvie's first book, Fit In Stand Out: Mastering the FISO Factor, has just been translated into Russian. It is also available in Spanish and Hindi editions.

Chicago Architecture Today features an exclusive interview of LIF affiliate Stephen Yas, and profiles his company, YAS Architecture.

LIF affiliate Nick Thorne writes on doing as well as advising – he’s combined two loves (international business and wine) and invested in a start-up in the wine cork busines. Read his "Bacchus and Me, the Start of a Journey Together."

Webcast: Blythe McGarvie shares a leadership minute on FISO leadership at the website BetterManagement.com.

Article in Directorship.com cites Blythe McGarvie as one of "the Most Influential People on Corporate Governance and in the Boardroom."


Laura Martin of Capital Knowledge releases updated media company research reports on CBS, Clear Channel Outdoor, Google,and Lamar Outdoor Advertising.

Meg Weston co-authors Blurring Lines, discussing how the line between retail and home are blurring in the photo products market.



 

insight, Influence, Leadership

Broadening the CFO experience:

In recent months, too many CFOs reverted back to the corner of providing data and reporting, ignoring his or her important role as business partner to help drive growth and profitability through integrity. Clients hire LIF to provide a broader perspective and help the CFO achieve or exceed the CEO's and the board's performance expectations.

Shaping your product offerings:

Clients hire LIF either on a retainer basis or for several working sessions to review their strategy and/or research in order to work with their employees to evaluate, rework and reshape the product offerings to ensure they address the targeted audience needs. Clients hire LIF to validate market strategies from a financial perspective and with external review of the competition and marketplace.

Reaching the CFO and Board members:

Clients hire LIF to help focus their message to reach CFOs and their direct reports, CEOs and Board members. LIF can help you extend your brand to improve your effectiveness in reaching the decision-makers.

 

 

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