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Nine Do's and Don'ts for Dealing with the Disgruntled

Harvard Business Review

Early in my career, when sharing a vacation house with a group of friends, I learned an important lesson from a classic book by anthropologist Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger : It takes a lot of people cooperating to keep things neat, but it takes only one disgruntled dirt-monger to mess things up. The former CFO did not go quietly.

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Stop Budgeting, Start Improving

Harvard Business Review

According to ThedaCare's chief financial officer, Tim Olson , top management viewed it as a significant waste of time. ThedaCare also introduced a daily financial management tool for department managers. This shift will require personal transformations for most C-level executives, especially the chief financial officer.