CFO Bookshelf

Agile, DevOps, TPS, TOC, Deming's System of Profound Knowledge. Is there a mental construct or latticework that connects these robust systems? In Wiring the Winning Organization, Gene Kim and Steve S...

23 Mar 20241h 2min

Readers of Corporate Counsel do not need to be legal professionals to enjoy this short book writen as a business fable. Anna is leaving a prestigious law firm to become the first in-house lawyer at ...

16 Mar 202453min

Of all the books written about Warren Buffett, I am unaware of any authors who grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and went to school with his children. Todd Finkle is the author of Warren Buffett: Investor a...

9 Mar 202450min

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