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Leading a Board of Directors

Great Leadership By Dan

To help you develop. A lead director can make your job much easier because they can run point on sensitive issues, poll the board for concerns, help build consensus, and give you much needed feedback and guidance. He’s a seasoned financial operator with extensive experience in startups and growth companies.

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Navigating Tradeoffs in a Dual-Career Marriage

Harvard Business Review

Last month, Patrick Pichette, Google’s 52-year-old chief financial officer, announced that he was retiring to spend more time with his family. Indeed, this is what happens when couples don’t actively work to build and maintain consensus on what they want. Develop a common vision, then keep each other on track.

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Why Sit on All that Cash? Firms Uncertain on Cost of Capital

Harvard Business Review

AFP conducted the Cost of Capital Survey in October 2010 and received answers from 309 chief financial officers, treasurers, vice presidents-finance, and assistant treasurers. There was little consensus about cost of capital practices; instead, respondents typically deployed a plurality of techniques.