-- Insider's guidance from financial executives at the world's best performing companies.

-- Beyond finance: strategy, leadership, and core competency evaluation for financial managers.

-- Case studies include Bristol-Myers Squibb, Unilever, W.L. Gore, and many others.

In today's integrated and complex financial world, financial leaders can't succeed on financial skills alone. Today's most successful companies have discovered that "leveraged competencies" -- often referred to as "soft" or "leadership" skills -- are crucial to the success of financial leaders. Drawing upon research at eight outstanding global companies, this book provides a complete blueprint for enterprises who want tomorrow's leaders to have all the skills they need to win -- financial and leadership. This book focuses on the emotional competencies and leadership skills executives need to succeed at the highest level, presenting detailed case studies from several of the world's best companies, including Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb, Dana Corp., Nortel Networks, Solvay Polymers, Synovus Financial, Unilever-HPC, and W.L. Gore & Associates. Part of a new series of books sponsored by the Financial Executives Research Foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of Financial Executives International, the preeminent professional association for senior financial executives, representing 30,000 financial executives worldwide. The Research Foundation, established in 1944, funded the research and case studies in this book. For all senior executives, in finance and beyond, who are interested in training new leaders fortheir company -- or becoming better leaders.