Brett & Jack discuss what might be a popular response to employees “quiet quitting” or what among managers has been dubbed “quiet firing” – the withdrawal of coaching, support and career development to an employee, which results in pushing the employee out of an organization. This episode’s featured Workplace Champions share their different perspectives on […]
Finance Team Spends 20 Percent of Its Time Customer Facing | Kevin Rubin, CFO, Alteryx
CFO GUEST: Kevin Rubin of Alteryx EPISODE: 860: Opportunities From Life’s Cauldron
860: Opportunities From Life’s Cauldron | Kevin Rubin, CFO, Alteryx
Back in the year 2000, as Arthur Andersen saw a stream of young accountants exit the firm to join dotcom start-ups, Kevin Rubin’s workload continued to escalate as the public accounting firm felt the pinch of a constricting workforce. Nevertheless, Rubin’s career ambitions remained in lockstep with the public accounting house. In fact, even today…
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A CFO Aligns Minds Using “The Data” | Rajat Bahri, CFO, Icertis
CFO GUEST: Rajat Bahri of Icertis EPISODE: 859: The Everyday, Conscious Effort to Add Value Machine Generated Transcript CFOTL: As you look to influence the workforce. And I’m wondering if you do it any differently than you did maybe 10 years ago. These tools are allowing you to do that, supposedly. Rajat Bahri: Couple of […]
859: The Everyday, Conscious Effort to Add Value | Rajat Bahri, CFO, Icertis
It was nearly 18 years ago that Icertis CFO Rajat Bahri stepped into the CFO office for the first time. Thus began a stretch of time that Bahri, not unlike many of his CFO peers, has populated with various distinguished CFO career chapters ranging from 3 to 5 to 8 years in duration. …
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858: Extending the Hand of Leadership | Brian Gladden, CFO, Zelis
If you had told Brian Gladden in 2006 that he would shortly be working for a Saudi crown prince, the 14-year GE finance veteran may have replied using a shorthand equivalent to “when pigs fly.” As a GE finance executive, Gladden had served in a string of senior roles, including a number in which he…
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Why CFOs Must Find the Middle Ground | Brian Gladden, CFO, Zelis
CFO GUEST: Brian Gladden of Zelis EPISODE: #858 Machine Generated Transcript: CFOTL: When you look back on your career, can you share with our audience a moment of insight you experienced as a finance leader? Gladden: I’ll talk in general and then maybe offer a couple examples. I mean, I find as I’ve done this […]
857: The Other Tech Stack | Razzak Jallow, CFO, FloQast
Back in 2009, as businesses navigated the repercussions of Wall Street’s collapse, Razzak Jallow found himself standing at a departure gate with a boarding pass that read simply "SaaS." To be clear, Jallow had just nabbed a spot on Adobe Inc.’s Creative Suite finance team, and the journey on which he and his colleagues were…
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856: Understanding What’s in Your Control and What’s Not | Céline Dufétel, CFO, Checkout.com
When Checkout.com CFO Céline Dufétel tells us that her career decision-making has been driven not so much by titles or status but by an inner push to acquire the next level of skills or types of skills, we can’t help but note a mysterious coincidence. It seems that a former McKinsey & Company partner had…
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855: Your Company’s Value Proposition | James Moylan, CFO, Ciena
Jim Moylan is perhaps our first CFO guest to list the leasing of oil rigs as one of the experiences that best prepared him for a CFO role. Of course, he makes it clear that the experience is worthy of mention not so much because of what he was selling but because he was selling…
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854: Expecting the Unexpected | Shana Veale, CFO, PharmChem
Shana Veale had been working in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, office of Arthur Andersen for only about 8 months when the 88-year-old stalwart accounting house collapsed. Being a recent college graduate at the time, Veale tells us, she really didn’t grasp all of what the news headlines attempted to convey as the turn of…
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Why Recruiting Remains Top of Mind | Evan Goldstein, CFO, Seismic
CFO GUEST: Evan Goldstein of Seismic EPISODE: #848 The People, the Mission & the Innovation