Chris Liddell
Chris Liddell
Christopher P. Liddell CNZMis a New Zealand businessman. He was the Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officerof General Motors. Liddell joined GM in January 2010, and led the company’s global finance operations until March 2011, including the $23billion GM IPO, at the time the largest ever...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth24 April 1958
CountryUnited States of America
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We've had a good start to an important year for the company.
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What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job.
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We feel good about the quarter ahead and good about the year ahead,
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We pushed the supply chain as hard as we could to sell as many as we could. We haven't yet reached the positive position of having supply equal demand, because to some extent we continue to see very good demand.
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Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.
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Customer demand for our new Dynamics CRM 3.0 software has been above our expectations, and we are forecasting the recent strength to continue through the second half.
Engineering is a fantastic base for any career.
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We had sales of over NZ$1 billion for the last quarter -- the result of developing new businesses, markets, products & services. Our exports continue to grow with New Zealand export sales for the first half up over 19 percent on the same period last year
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We have decided to aggressively invest next year in a number of areas, and (costs) do add up.
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We have decided to add investments in a number of areas, and they do add up. Investment today will drive future success.
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So, what genetic disposition do you need to be a CFO? Essentially, you need to be miserable, you need to be the sort of person who takes drinks away from people at the end of a party.
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I've always found diversity more interesting than specialisation. I like mixing it up across years, within days, within weeks - that's what stimulates me, gives me energy.
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I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly.