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📬 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?

Teams & Hiring

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📬 Speed Running: Spend approval for scale-ups

Oct 7, 2025

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17 min read

📬 Speed Running: Spend approval for scale-ups

And when is a "good enough" employee not good enough?

Treasury

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📬 Employer Due Diligence: Spotting Red Flags

Sep 16, 2025

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18 min read

📬 Employer Due Diligence: Spotting Red Flags

And how to guard against post deal job insecurity

Teams & Hiring

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📬 Legal Troubles: Managing out-of-control lawyer fees

Sep 9, 2025

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16 min read

📬 Legal Troubles: Managing out-of-control lawyer fees

And does a CFO have to be an expert in all finance areas?

Teams & Hiring

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📬 Eat What You Kill: How do you incentivize finance teams?

May 20, 2025

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13 min read

📬 Eat What You Kill: How do you incentivize finance teams?

And a rant on insurance

Teams & Hiring

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🤫 The Real CFO Secret: My “MRI” Hiring Process

May 25, 2024

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21 min read

🤫 The Real CFO Secret: My “MRI” Hiring Process

And the 'magic' interview question

Secret CFO
Secret CFO

Teams & Hiring

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🏀 Selling the Dream: Building (and Retaining) A Dream Team

May 18, 2024

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20 min read

🏀 Selling the Dream: Building (and Retaining) A Dream Team

And when to get rid of dead weight

Secret CFO
Secret CFO

Teams & Hiring

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🧑‍🎨 The Art of Building a Finance Team

May 11, 2024

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20 min read

🧑‍🎨 The Art of Building a Finance Team

Remember, titles are misleading

Secret CFO
Secret CFO

Teams & Hiring

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🥷 Killer Finance Teams Do These 7 Things

May 4, 2024

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18 min read

🥷 Killer Finance Teams Do These 7 Things

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