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CFO Bookshelf
The CFO Bookshelf weekly podcast is geared toward global financial leaders who are serious about lifelong learning and reading widely.
The show's 200-plus podcast catalog features well-known authors who are experts in finance, pricing, marketing, sales, operations, organizational health, and leadership.
Episodes are released weekly, and the host responds to every message he gets about the shows on LinkedIn.
Episodes
270 episodes
Private Equity and A Simple Model
We've been a long-time fan of Peter Lynch who has created the Excel-based, A Simple Model. Peter brings an uncanny ability to teach and elevate the skills of those wanting to build financial models through his growing platform.
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Are You Hyper-Learning at the Speed of Change?
Professor Edward Hess is one of our all-time favorite business authors who has written 12 books. His newest is Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change.Ed states that hyper-learning is a high-quality effort that requires lear...
A Young College Student Who Was Not Phased by the Pandemic
What job did you have when you were 20 years old? Imagine starting a complex sales position during one of the most challenging economic environments our country has ever experienced. Yet, 20-year-old Alex Dickinson overcame overwhelming odds th...
Former CFO Aaron Beam Revisits the HealthSouth Accounting Fraud
If you were asked to cook the books, would you? That's the situation Aaron Beam found himself in when his CEO told him to fix the numbers to appease Wall Street investors. Aaron is the author of HealthSouth: The Wagon to Disaster. Aaron joins u...
Paul Downs Says We Don't Need to be a Steve Jobs or a Phil Knight
Paul Downs is the author of the highly-popular book, Boss Life, and is a former guest columnist of The New York Times.Paul in this insightful interview talks about the ups and downs in running a small business and getting the help he ne...
Ron Baker Discusses Pricing, NPS, Economics, Metrics, and Much More
The co-hosts of The CFO Bookshelf Podcast have been fans of Ron Baker for years, and our favorite podcast is one that he co-hosts with Ed Kless, The Soul of Enterprise.Ron is a recovering CPA who is probably the father of value pricing ...
The Rule of 40 and More SaaS Metrics
Dave Kellogg is the former CEO of Host Analytics now called Planful. Dave is a brilliant writer on his blog called Kellblog and he's outstanding behind a mic too. Since leaving his CEO post, Dave has been consulting SaaS-based businesses in Sil...
John Boyd and the OODA Loop
Maybe the name John Boyd does not ring a bell, but perhaps the OODA Loop will, the mental model created by one of the most gifted military strategists since Sun Tzu. I was so mesmerized by Robert Coram's biography on John Boyd, I reached out to...
Connecting the Dots Between Business and Rowing with Dan Boyne
After reading two of Dan's books, The Read Rose Crew and Kelly, CFO Bookshelf jumped at the chance to interview the author, Dan Boyne.Dan shares how he got started in rowing, what he does now as a coaching instructor at Harvard, and the...
Strategy, Competition, and Politics
Many business students and most strategic analysts are familiar with Porter's Five Forces competitive framework.Katherine Gehl is a former CEO and was frustrated with the lack of innovation and competition she was noticing in our two-pa...
2 CFOs Break Down the Kolbe A™ Index
Last week, we heard from the President of Kolbe Corporation, Amy Bruske. We enjoyed that conversation so much, we decided to unpack much of what she had to say on conative strengths.Mark and Bruce addressed the relevance of Kolbe in the...
The Conative Mindset is Vastly Underrated
Amy Bruske is the president of Kolbe Corp. She is also the co-author of Business is Business with her step-mother, Kathy Kolbe.Amy discusses a number of topics on the show including an overview of conative instincts, her book, and why t...
The Co-Founder of Dryrun Talks about Cash Flow Forecasting
CFO Bookshelf is impressed with the Canadian software company called Dryrun which specializes in cash flow forecasting. The co-founder of the company, Blain Bertsch joins us to talk about his company, the software, and cash flow modeling in gen...
Rookie Smarts With Liz Wiseman
You probably know her for the best-selling book, Multipliers. But Liz Wiseman is also the author of one of CFO Bookshelf's favorite books on A-Players entitled Rookie Smarts. Liz tells us the difference between h...
2 CFOs Unpack OKRs
Bruce and I enjoyed our conversation so much last week with OKR expert, Ben Lamorte, we wanted to unpack that discussion by sharing our own observations.Key themes include:starting smallis it flavor-of-the-month?
OKRs with Ben Lamorte
Ben Lamorte is one of the top experts and consultants on implementing OKRs around the globe. He's an author and the President of OKRs.com.In this episode, Ben explains how Jeff Walker, his mentor and former CFO of Oracle, introduced the...
Smart vs Healthy Businesses
Brian Jones joins the 2 CFOs at CFO Bookshelf to talk about organizational health and the benefits to the company as a whole.
Time to Revisit Scenario Planning?
In the wake of the current pandemic, is it time to revisit scenario planning? In this episode, Mark and Bruce discuss three keys to successful scenario planning along with a McKinsey briefing on three actions all businesses should be undertakin...