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Back in 2022, only three years after its acquisition of Warner Media, AT&T decided to leave the entertainment business and announced plans to relinquish its ownership of the giant media …
Continue Reading about 873: Pages from a Silver Lining Playbook | Michael Kopelman, CFO, Meow Wolf →
During the early years of his finance career Dan Fletcher was accustomed to being the executive from somewhere else.When he first joined the asset management team at Allstate Investments, he was “the …
Continue Reading about 872: Opportunities Along the xP&A Frontier | Dan Fletcher, CFO, Planful →
One of the unspoken truths about interim CFO roles is that they sometimes don’t lead to an actual CFO role—a fact that has turned more than a few seasoned finance executives into chronic nail-biters. …
John McCauley is the first finance leader to tell us that his path to the CFO office began in a pool.Back in high school, McCauley relates, he was a rebellious student with less than impressive grades …
Continue Reading about 870: When Preparation Matters | John McCauley, CFO, Calendly →
Looking back, CFO Ravi Narula tells us that he wishes that he had become a “servant leader” sooner, as he references the familiar leadership tag signaling a mind-set focused on serving others.“If you …
Continue Reading about 869: Sharpening its Customer Focus | Ravi Narula, CFO, FinancialForce →
The Goldman Sachs “anti-raid” team was between conference calls with an embattled client company when word came that a senior member of the target company’s management team had unexpectedly …
