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Ask the CFO Replay: Making the Tough Calls in Your Business
In this week’s Ask the CFO, we stepped away from financial statements and numbers for a moment and talked about something that affects nearly every small and family-owned business: making the tough people decisions.
If you run a business, you know exactly what I mean.
Most of the time, the hardest problems in a company aren’t spreadsheets or strategy. They’re people. And in smaller organizations—where teams are tight and relationships run deep—those decisions can be especially difficult.
But …
Ask the CFO Recap: Managing Personal Risk Featuring Amanda Martinez, VCU Risk Advisors
One of our final Ask the CFO sessions of the year brought a timely and highly practical conversation with Amanda Martinez of VCU Risk Advisors. As many business owners wind down for the holidays, issues like insurance coverage, cyber threats, personal risk exposure, and multi-state assets tend to surface—especially for owners with both business and personal holdings to protect.
Amanda works in a niche most people don’t even realize exists: high-net-worth personal risk management. Her firm speci…
Ask the CFO: The Missing Ingredient in Lean: Leadership Behavior, Not More Tools with guests Mike & Will Craig
Every time Lean comes up in a conversation with a business owner or CFO, I hear some version of the same question:
“We rolled out Lean… why didn’t it last?”
After our latest Ask the CFO session with Mike Craig and William Craig from GKW Business Solutions, I think the answer is clearer than ever. Lean doesn’t fail because people don’t understand the tools. It fails because leadership doesn’t change the behaviors that make those tools meaningful.
Mike spent years in manufacturing finance befor…
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