You’ve heard of Topgrading®, right? The objective of Topgrading® is all about finding, acquiring, onboarding and keeping A-players. What is the Topgrading® equivalent of entrepreneur A-players? I don’t think there is one, but Entrepreneur Upskilling is top of mind. So what is it? Meet Dr. Tom McKaskill Every CFO should be familiar with the great writing of…
Ready for an adrenaline rush? Come on, you deserve it. Let’s start with sports and music. The two just go together. Add a high-performing, part-time CFO to the mix, and you’ve got a powerful combination. And if you agree, you need a theme song for your practice. Tell me you haven’t at least driven down…
Is it possible to be an amateur CFO? If you’re reading this, here’s betting you are the ultimate professional CFO, right? Let’s do some quick comparing and contrasting. Shane Parrish Knocked it Out of the Park I’m a big fan of Shane Parrish and the Farnam Street blog. One of my favorite posts is The Difference…
Every year, I say I’m going to quit reading business books. Well, this CFO failed again miserably. I read 41 books and listened to another 47 bringing me to 88 total books, a bit far from my goal of 100 every year. Interested in seeing my partial list of favorite books from the prior year?…
I never come right out and ask it, but I find out from every CEO what keeps them up at night or what pains they wish they could eliminate immediately. Without fail, that’s why they typically hire me almost on the spot after I start giving them solutions to their concerns. You see, I’m helping…
Who doesn’t love a great story? I like the kind where I identify with one of the central characters–one where we share similar points of view. As a consultant, there’s a story I tell over and over again to my favorite clients. I share it for multiple reasons. First, it’s a great story. It’s a…
Edward Hess in his outstanding book Learn or Die reminded us of several sobering facts about businesses burning on fumes: The average tenure on the S&P 500 was 30 years in 1980. Today, it’s 18 years and declining. The past decade, half the S&P 500 was replaced. The average tenure of the Fortune 500 CEO…
Four major networks, a handful of national newspapers, limited cable offerings, and numerous magazines delivered to our mailboxes monthly. Do you ever wish you could turn back the clock sometime before the turn of the century? Those of us who were building our careers in the ’80s and ’90s thought information overload was a problem back…
When I found out several months ago that a movie was coming out on the miraculous evacuation of nearly 400,000 Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk during World War II, one question came to mind. Will there be any mention of Charles Lightoller? Charles Lightoller was 66 when he received a call from the British…
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