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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.

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📬 Dumpster Fire: Measuring M&A success

Oct 21, 2025

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18 min read

📬 Dumpster Fire: Measuring M&A success

And walking up the staircase of financial maturity

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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?

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When the numbers fall apart: Crisis Management IV

Sep 27, 2025

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20 min read

When the numbers fall apart: Crisis Management IV

This time it’s about you

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Crisis Management II: Inside the war room

Sep 13, 2025

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18 min read

Crisis Management II: Inside the war room

A tactical playbook for CFOs in the eye of a storm

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😨 Everything just changed

Jul 19, 2025

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16 min read

😨 Everything just changed

And how to survive a change in CEO...

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🤔 Who Really Runs the Business?

Jul 12, 2025

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20 min read

🤔 Who Really Runs the Business?

The Hidden Roles on the Invisible Org Chart

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📬 The CFO Tightrope: when your CEO & board want different things

Jun 10, 2025

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15 min read

📬 The CFO Tightrope: when your CEO & board want different things

And how it feels working with people you REALLY don't like

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📬 On the Outside Looking In: How Do You Deal With a CEO Who Used To Be a CFO?

Apr 29, 2025

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12 min read

📬 On the Outside Looking In: How Do You Deal With a CEO Who Used To Be a CFO?

And going private

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🐣 C-Suite Politics Part III: I remember my first CFO job

Oct 19, 2024

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21 min read

🐣 C-Suite Politics Part III: I remember my first CFO job

Survival and advance

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👥 C-Suite Politics Part II: The viper's nest

Oct 12, 2024

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20 min read

👥 C-Suite Politics Part II: The viper's nest

The C-Suite can be a minefield

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👥 C-Suite Politics Part I: Partners in crime

Oct 5, 2024

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20 min read

👥 C-Suite Politics Part I: Partners in crime

Playing nice with your CEO

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🪖 Boardroom Survival Guide

Jan 20, 2024

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19 min read

🪖 Boardroom Survival Guide

7 things boardroom first timers should do

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🤔 How Boards (Actually) Work

Jan 13, 2024

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20 min read

🤔 How Boards (Actually) Work

And what happens when they don't

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🏂 What Do Boards Do, Anyway?

Jan 6, 2024

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16 min read

🏂 What Do Boards Do, Anyway?

And the one thing that drives them

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