CFO Bookshelf

John Rossman is making his second appearance on CFO Bookshelf. We interviewed him two years ago for one of our top 10 books of 2022, The Amazon Way, Amazon's 14 Leadership Principles. John's newest b...

2 Mar 202442min

Gary Harpst co-founded the ERP solution Solomon Software, which was ultimately sold to Great Plains. The CFO Bookshelf enjoys Gary's work and past books, including Six Disciplines for Excellence and S...

27 Jan 202459min

A Beautiful Constraint by Morgan and Barden: is it a marketing, branding, psychology, or management book? Or is it all four? In this episode, Willy Donaldson (Simple_Complexity and Estimated Time of ...

20 Jan 202445min

Since starting the CFO Bookshelf podcast, I have released a ‘favorite books’ show each January. I’ve always been reluctant to do so because my reading tastes may differ from yours. However, these epis...

13 Jan 20241h 8min

Many pricing books are heavy in ideas, abstractions, and behavioral science mind-shifting. Others are focused merely on simple tactics. Jean-Manual Izaret's (JMI) book, Game Changer, fills a void by ...

7 Jan 20241h 4min

CFO Bookshelf considers The Wisdom of Finance one of its favorite 25 business books. Mihir Desai combines abstract and obtuse finance concepts with literature, history, movies, and poems in his book,...

16 Des 202350min

One of the best books we've read on private equity is by Adam Coffey. The title is The Private Equity Playbook. Adam's newest book is based on a two-day presentation he gave on how to roll up an indu...

8 Des 202351min

Since I am not a customer of Dunkin' Donuts, I know very little about their origin story. When Around the Corner, Around the World hit my reading radar, I was intrigued and was compelled to read it. I...

2 Des 202339min