Category: Leadership & Culture
Lessons on team management, mentorship, internal controls, and building productive teams.
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The People Behind the Synergies There is an old saying: A recession is when your neighbor loses their job. A depression is when you lose yours. The number of WARN notices appearing in the news lately—sprinkled between LinkedIn posts from newly minted “Open to Work” connections—suggests we may be in recession territory. Then a close…
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People like to pretend modern professional life evolved beyond primitive power structures. I do not think it did. We simply industrialized them. Wrapped them in PowerPoint, recruiting decks, utilization targets, “talent strategies,” and consulting brands. Today was another reminder. We are implementing a new system. The consultants arrive. The product engineer running the demo starts…
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“They eat their own.” That phrase has been stuck in my head for weeks. At first I thought I was writing about consulting firms, corporate hierarchies, aging workers, or the way professional systems quietly consume people once their economic utility begins to dim. But that is not really the deeper trigger. Recently I reread something…
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Bear with me a minute on a personal reflection — I promise I’ll get to the financial foundation. We were cleaning out old storage bins and came across a very old photo album in what was left of my mom’s last bit of memorabilia. A carefully curated album of old black-and-white photos. What do you…
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Another post crossed my feed today drawing a line between a “strategic CFO” and a CFO in name only, someone doing “controller” work for CFO pay. The implication whether intended or not is that companies with CFOs involved in the close, setting processes for year end and ensuring reconciliations are done are overpaying for glorified…
Financial Foundations with Jim Curham 