CFO Bookshelf

One of my favorite CFOs is Bob Lung. For the past 33 years, he's been chauffeuring players and dignitaries at the NFL's annual Hall of Fame weekend activities in Canton, Ohio. In this fast-paced inte...

12 Aug 202222min

With the passing of the 20th anniversary of WorldCom filing bankruptcy in the aftermath of the whistle being blown on its reporting of fraudulent financial statements, I wanted to revisit Cynthia Coop...

12 Aug 202247min

What is the best book on negotiation you've ever read? Many business readers who have read Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss would probably pick that title. What if I said there is another ...

5 Aug 202254min

The legendary Bill Campbell is called the trillion dollar coach by his biographers. Campbell coached and mentored larger-than-life business leaders Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Steve Jobs, Marissa Mayer,...

29 Jul 20221h 3min

Can you name any recent descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt who didn't build one but two massive fortunes during the Gilded Age? After the third and fourth generations, the money started evaporating q...

22 Jul 202229min

Rob Hart's book, The Warehouse, is a speculative dystopian thriller. The central character is an online retailer called Cloud - think Amazon in the distant future dominating its rivals which has deva...

16 Jul 202244min

We learn from Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view … until you climb into their skin and walk around in it." Elvi...

9 Jul 20221h

Jeff Sands is the author of Corporate Turnaround Artistry. Before fixing and mending other companies' broken income statements and balance sheets, he had to fix his own. During this conversation, we ...

1 Jul 20221h 9min