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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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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Why Recruiting Remains Top of Mind | Evan Goldstein, CFO, Seismic
CFO GUEST: Evan Goldstein of Seismic EPISODE: #848 The People, the Mission & the Innovation
How Growth and Transformation Prepared a Future CFO | Chip Zint, CFO, Deluxe
CFO GUEST: Chip Zint of Deluxe EPISODE: #853: When the Fire Burns Brightest
853: When the Fire Burns Brightest | Chip Zint, CFO, Deluxe
After Chip Zint jumped two levels in NCR Corp.’s retail division finance hierarchy, he couldn’t help but savor the moment while reflecting on the fact that his career years thus far—including nights and weekends studying for an MBA—had all been put to good use. Still, while altitude matters when it comes to career leaps, where…
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