CFO Bookshelf

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

If you think Netflix was the cause of Blockbuster's failure, you'll change your mind after you hear Alan Payne explain the reasons for this company's demise. Alan was a longtime owner of a chain of s...

24 Jun 20221h 2min

If I could only pick one book for any financial leader to read about company culture, it would be Patty McCord's book, Powerful. In this episode, two CFOs break down the big ideas in Patty's book whi...

20 Jun 202253min

Have you ever worked with a software vendor who said their solution would save you as much as $1 million annually? Or how about the big data warehousing project where the lead consultant says this pro...

11 Jun 202237min

Glenn Hopper is the author of Deep Finance: Corporate Finance for the Information Age. Glenn is a likable expert who helps the rest of us better understand artificial intelligence, data science, and...

4 Jun 20221h 10min

For too many years than I can count, I've been listening to the audio version of How to Become a CEO by Jeffrey Fox annually. The book is a simple, to-the-point book discussion that applies to any pos...

28 Mai 202253min