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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
WorldCom's Financial Statement Fraud
With the passing of the 20th anniversary of WorldCom filing bankruptcy in the aftermath of the whistle being blown on its reporting of fraudulent financial statements, I wanted to revisit Cynthia Cooper's page-turner, Extraordinary Circu...
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Negotiation Simplified with Jim Reiman
What is the best book on negotiation you've ever read?Many business readers who have read Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss would probably pick that title. What if I said there is another title that's far...
More Than a Trillion Dollar Coach
The legendary Bill Campbell is called the trillion dollar coach by his biographers. Campbell coached and mentored larger-than-life business leaders Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Steve Jobs, Marissa Mayer, and many others.If Bill was the tri...
What Happened to the Vanderbilt Dynasty?
Can you name any recent descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt who didn't build one but two massive fortunes during the Gilded Age? After the third and fourth generations, the money started evaporating quickly, but why?Katherine Howe is th...
Would You Work at This Warehouse?
Rob Hart's book, The Warehouse, is a speculative dystopian thriller.The central character is an online retailer called Cloud - think Amazon in the distant future dominating its rivals which has devastating effects on sma...
Is Customer Empathy a Difference Maker?
We learn from Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view … until you climb into their skin and walk around in it."Elvis Pressley used to sin...
Fixing a Broken Business
Jeff Sands is the author of Corporate Turnaround Artistry. Before fixing and mending other companies' broken income statements and balance sheets, he had to fix his own.During this conversation, we also learn about the d...
A Blockbuster Failure
If you think Netflix was the cause of Blockbuster's failure, you'll change your mind after you hear Alan Payne explain the reasons for this company's demise.Alan was a longtime owner of a chain of successful Blockbuster stores. He was a...
A Financially Powerful Culture
If I could only pick one book for any financial leader to read about company culture, it would be Patty McCord's book, Powerful.In this episode, two CFOs break down the big ideas in Patty's book which include the role of...
Are Your Big Projects Profitable?
Have you ever worked with a software vendor who said their solution would save you as much as $1 million annually?Or how about the big data warehousing project where the lead consultant says this project could lead to significantly more ...
Finance Essentials in AI, Data Science and ERP
Glenn Hopper is the author of Deep Finance: Corporate Finance for the Information Age. Glenn is a likable expert who helps the rest of us better understand artificial intelligence, data science, and ERP solutions.&n...
How to Become CEO or Even an Army Officer
For too many years than I can count, I've been listening to the audio version of How to Become a CEO by Jeffrey Fox annually. The book is a simple, to-the-point book discussion that applies to any position, even an officer in th...
Reversing the Slide in Corporate Turnarounds
Professor Jim Shein of the Kellogg School of Management is one of my favorite turnaround experts, and he's the author of my favorite book in this space, Reversing the Slide.Some of the big ideas we address are how to get...
The Power of Analogy
Financial writers have been telling CFOs that they need to become storytellers in their businesses. How?John Pollack is a former presidential speechwriter and he's an expert in analogies. He's delivered a popular TEDx presentation on th...
A New Way To Think With Roger Martin
I'm going to make the bold statement that Roger Martin is this era's Peter Drucker as a prolific business writer.Roger has co-authored my favorite book on strategy, Playing to Win which is simple, concise, pragmatic, and...
Ram Charan on Finding, Getting, and Developing Talent
Finding, obtaining, and developing leadership talent is not easy, and there is plenty of data to support making decisions too fast or waiting too long in getting the right team in place.Ram Charan is known for books like Execution, Boar...
OKRs With Outcomes
Ben Lamorte is making his third appearance on CFO Bookshelf. He certifies OKRs coaches on his platform, OKRs.com. His newest book is The OKRs Field Book.In this conversation, we address outcomes vs outputs, setting meani...
Six Pillars of CEO Excellence
If you ask ten successful CEOs what they do, you'll probably hear many answers--all good, but vastly different from executive to executive.A dream team of McKinsey partners decided to research the very question based on 200 in-depth int...
Don't Call Us the PayPal Mafia
If you've been searching for the PayPal version of Brad Stone's, The Everything Store, then you can start with Jimmy Soni's new book, The Founders.In this fast-paced interview with the author, we learn ma...
The DNA Behind the FABS Leadership Styles
As we observe the DNA behind some of our favorite CEOs, patterns will start to surface. Some are natural at scaling companies to new levels. And then there are stories like those of Phil Knight, Jeff Bezos, Reid Hoffman, and Sara Blakely who st...
Entrepreneurial Magic at Trader Joe's
Joe Coulombe is one of the most intelligent, creative, and thoughtful CEOs I've read about in the past ten to twenty years. He grew Trader Joe's into one of the most successful and iconic brands in the grocery industry before he sold the busine...
What is Agile Strategy?
Dan Montgomery is the founder of Agile Strategies, a boutique OKRs firm, and the author of Start Less Finish More.Dan states the old strategic planning model of predicting and then controlling needs to give way to sensin...
What's the Book on Phantom Stock?
Good luck on finding a book about phantom stock plans that's simple to understand with practical examples. It does not exist.However, Paolo Pasicolan has created nearly a hundred such plans with the law firm he works for, Miles and Stoc...
What is a Business Psychologist?
I've always been intrigued about the roles of business psychologists and certified business coaches and their ability to elevate the performances of the people and businesses they work with.In this show, I visited with Dr. Russell Thack...
Captain Charlie Plumb on Grit, Honor, and Gratitude
I first heard Captain Charlie Plumb's POW story some twenty years ago, and I'm thrilled to share this conversation where we talk about Louis Zamperini, an unlikely parachute dialogue, culture, the leadership of Admiral James Stockdale, and some...