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The Problem with “Follow Your Passion” Stories I’ve been reading and watching a lot of TED talks lately—successful people telling the story of how they followed their passion and ended up fulfilled, happy, and successful. There’s a recurring theme: “Follow your passion. Look at me—I did, and it worked.” These talks highlight the outcome. What…
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Early in my career—long before AI, cloud ERPs, or any notion that accounting could be automated out of existence – I found myself staring at a wall of inventory reports at Johnson & Johnson. Finished goods. LIFO. Dozens of layers accumulated year after year because inventory levels always seemed to rise. Cost indexes went up,…
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A Few Good Men It’s always bugged me a bit to admit it, but in many ways Nicholson’s witness-stand rant in A Few Good Men—I agree with it. We do live in a world with “walls.” Outcomes matter. Success requires the right players in the right positions, and that requires ruthless decisions. Turnarounds are not…
Financial Foundations with Jim Curham 