Leadership & Impact

Oct 31, 2026

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12 min read

📅 Inside my CFO calendar

And how I'd use AI to transform it

Leadership & Impact

Oct 24, 2026

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12 min read

🙉 It's all in your head

The CFO Operating System IV: Keeping track of numbers, people, projects, and decisions

Leadership & Impact

Oct 17, 2026

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11 min read

🐝 Too busy to be CFO?

How to build a relentless CFO routine without filling every hour...

Leadership & Impact

Oct 10, 2026

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11 min read

🤌 The Four Es: CFO Operating Modes

Part II of the CFO Operating System

Leadership & Impact

Oct 3, 2026

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11 min read

🤢 Altitude sickness

New Series: The CFO Operating System

FP&A

Sep 26, 2026

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11 min read

🔪 Gutting the finance team

When trimming around the edges won’t cut it.

FP&A

🕯️ Keeping the lights on (while everything else burns)

Sep 19, 2026

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11 min read

🕯️ Keeping the lights on (while everything else burns)

How to keep finance running while you fix the roof

Leadership & Impact

Sep 12, 2026

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10 min read

💀 Bring out the dead

A practical playbook for flushing out the hidden problems in a broken finance function.

Leadership & Impact

Sep 5, 2026

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11 min read

💩 Oh sh*t, it’s broken

Inheriting a Shitshow Finance Function: Part I

Teams & Hiring

📬 Come together: To centralize FP&A (or not)?

Aug 4, 2026

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8 min read

📬 Come together: To centralize FP&A (or not)?

And when benchmarking is useful, and when it's hopeless

Leadership & Impact

The Economics of AI Adoption: AI for CFOs IV

Apr 25, 2026

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11 min read

The Economics of AI Adoption: AI for CFOs IV

Where the hell is the ROI in AI?

Leadership & Impact

Apr 4, 2026

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21 min read

Going Rogue: AI for CFOs I

You think you’re managing AI risk, but you’re probably increasing it.

The Board Room

📬 Tone at the top: Dealing with a CEO who fiddles their expenses

Mar 3, 2026

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18 min read

📬 Tone at the top: Dealing with a CEO who fiddles their expenses

And how to move beyond the "nice but s**t" coworker

Leadership & Impact

Fix your board deck with these two words: The Storytelling CFO III

Feb 21, 2026

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20 min read

Fix your board deck with these two words: The Storytelling CFO III

How to make a complex story simple

Leadership & Impact

Body Slams & Balance Sheets: The Storytelling CFO II

Feb 14, 2026

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18 min read

Body Slams & Balance Sheets: The Storytelling CFO II

What WWE and the CFO role has in common..

Leadership & Impact

Don’t Start With Data: Storytelling for CFOs I

Feb 7, 2026

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16 min read

Don’t Start With Data: Storytelling for CFOs I

The real secret to engaging people

Teams & Hiring

📬 Bonus structures for finance: What's the scorecard?

Dec 30, 2025

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15 min read

📬 Bonus structures for finance: What's the scorecard?

And fixing core AR and AP problems

Leadership & Impact

System Rollout Scars: Finance Transformation III

Dec 20, 2025

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20 min read

System Rollout Scars: Finance Transformation III

If you don’t carry ERP rollout scars have you even CFO’d?

Teams & Hiring

The Soft Stuff Is the Hard Stuff: Finance Transformation II

Dec 13, 2025

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20 min read

The Soft Stuff Is the Hard Stuff: Finance Transformation II

How to write a vision for finance

CFO Role

Easier Said Than Done: Finance Transformation I

Dec 6, 2025

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15 min read

Easier Said Than Done: Finance Transformation I

It's not them, it's you...

M&A

📬 Prepping for exit: Real earnings or short-term optics?

Nov 25, 2025

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19 min read

📬 Prepping for exit: Real earnings or short-term optics?

And how to get back to carrot/stick incentives

Mailbag

Nov 4, 2025

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15 min read

📬 Brand First: D2C survival tactics

And wtf is "lights out accounting"

The Board Room

How to Get Hired (and Fired): The Private Equity CFO IV

Oct 25, 2025

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20 min read

How to Get Hired (and Fired): The Private Equity CFO IV

Landing fast, setting the tone, and building a finance engine that wins.

The Board Room

📬 Healthy Tension: Handling CEO red flags

Oct 14, 2025

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15 min read

📬 Healthy Tension: Handling CEO red flags

And to MBA or not to MBA?

M&A

PE CFOs are Built Different: The Private Equity CFO I

Oct 4, 2025

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16 min read

PE CFOs are Built Different: The Private Equity CFO I

What every CFO can learn from their PE peers

📅 Inside my CFO calendar

🙉 It's all in your head

🐝 Too busy to be CFO?

🤌 The Four Es: CFO Operating Modes

🤢 Altitude sickness

🔪 Gutting the finance team

🕯️ Keeping the lights on (while everything else burns)

💀 Bring out the dead

💩 Oh sh*t, it’s broken

📬 Come together: To centralize FP&A (or not)?

The Economics of AI Adoption: AI for CFOs IV

Going Rogue: AI for CFOs I

📬 Tone at the top: Dealing with a CEO who fiddles their expenses

Fix your board deck with these two words: The Storytelling CFO III

Body Slams & Balance Sheets: The Storytelling CFO II

Don’t Start With Data: Storytelling for CFOs I

📬 Bonus structures for finance: What's the scorecard?

System Rollout Scars: Finance Transformation III

The Soft Stuff Is the Hard Stuff: Finance Transformation II

Easier Said Than Done: Finance Transformation I

📬 Prepping for exit: Real earnings or short-term optics?

📬 Brand First: D2C survival tactics

How to Get Hired (and Fired): The Private Equity CFO IV

📬 Healthy Tension: Handling CEO red flags

PE CFOs are Built Different: The Private Equity CFO I

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