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Shifting Finance from Controlling to Improving

Harvard Business Review

Yet this is exactly the challenge facing leaders of the finance function who are asked to help their organization improve the way that work is done. As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. Getting the CFO on board is key.

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You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life

Harvard Business Review

During one of their monthly webinars I observed, the group began by sharing photographs of their families and talking about their lives outside of work. “I’m not sure when I first asked if I thought it would be successful,” said Hickox, now CFO of Independent Bank in McKinney Texas. ” None of this is easy.

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