CFO Bookshelf

Derek Sivers was an accidental business founder. All he wanted to do was put his music online and sell it online before the dotcom bubble when PayPal did not exist yet. During one four-year period, h...

13 Touko 202345min

One of the best books we've read in 2023 is the story of Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, who started a business of women freelance programmers in a male-dominated world in the 1960s based in London. ...

5 Touko 202334min

We learned many linear frameworks in business school to help us solve simple to complex problems. Yet, systems thinking was probably missing from that curriculum. The Fifth Discipline (Senge) and Sys...

28 Huhti 202352min

David Axson is called a CFO whisperer, but I'm also calling him an expert on calling the flaws and weaknesses of some of the biggest name management tools and systems from the past that are still infl...

21 Huhti 20231h 8min

Behind his back, I call him a Peter Drucker. He's the co-host of one of my favorite podcasts, 2Bobs. He's also the author of six business books. His name is David C. Baker, and I could listen to him ...

14 Huhti 202333min

Are you curious about the origin story of the CFO Bookshelf podcast? The great people at Oracle NetSuite wanted to know that about a year earlier when they asked that question during one of their webi...

14 Huhti 20231h 2min

I enjoy reading books by transparent business founders who are not afraid to let their guard down in the stories they share. Titles quickly coming to mind are Boss Life by Paul Downs, Anything You Wa...

7 Huhti 202349min

Do you know what a donor-advised fund (DAF) is? Until this conversation, I knew very little about DAFs. Jake Wood founded Groundswell, whose mission is to democratize and revolutionize philanthropy f...

1 Huhti 202326min