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CFO Book Review: Saving the Corporate Soul by David Batstone

The image of corporate America has been rapidly eroding over the past years as scandal, greed and layoffs are highlighted on the evening news. In this book the author explores what it takes for a corporation to act and engage in business in a way that aligns with the...

CFO Book Review: Leading Change

Leading Change by John P. Kotter Harvard Business School Press (1996) Leading Change was written as a follow up to an article the author wrote for the Harvard Business Review entitled “Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail”. This article received such an...

Whatever Happened to Corporate Stewardship – Rick Wartzman

In November 1956, Time magazine explored a phenomenon that went by various names: “capitalism with a conscience,” “enlightened conservatism,” “people’s capitalism,” and, most popularly, “The New Conservatism.” No matter which label one preferred, the basic concept was...

Should A Business Owner Double As The CFO?

Business owners and CEO’s of small privately-held businesses are faced with multiple demands on their time. They are tasked with developing new markets, growing the existing market, keeping on top of changing technology, creating a healthy internal culture,...

Why CFO Business Partner

The tagline for CFO Business Partner is “Stewarding Profits, People, Partners, and Places.” Over the course of the next few months I will be expanding on this theme and providing you with insights into what this tag line means to me, and how I am using...