Turmoil is taking place in the recruiting war. The battle for talent, executive level talent especially, seems to be tougher than it’s ever been.
Greg Hodge, and Executive Director at Russell Reynolds Associates, tackles these questions in this CFO Talk:
1. What advice would you give finance leaders about career management?
2. If a finance leader is in job search what specific advice would you give them?
Dave Bookbinder, a business valuation expert, author of the new ROI Return on Individuals and host of the Behind the Number show delivers an insightful message on how leaders can manage their talent as their most important asset, rather than the traditional method of treating talent as an expense.
In fact, Dave argues our accounting methods in general do a poor job of capturing the true value of human capital.
Watch Dave’s CFO Talk for more on evaluating our most valuable resource.
In this fun CFO Talk Brian Higgins describes how his engineering background helped him develop Activity Value Management to aid his clients in better cost management and improved enterprise performance.
“AVM leads you to do more of what you should be doing and less of what you shouldn’t be doing.”
“I have my spreadsheet, you have your spreadsheet, everybody else has their spreadsheets, and none of them talk to each other.” This statement from Bruce Lynn, Managing Partner of The FECG LLC, is more accurate now than it has ever been. Spreadsheets are ubiquitous and work well for prototyping and managing operations at a small scale. Almost 1.5 billion users globally use different types of spreadsheets (like MS Excel, Google Spreadsheets) to meet their operational needs. On the other hand, spreadsheets tend to be extremely limiting as the scale and complexity of operations increase.
In this episode of CFO Talk, Nilly Essaides, Managing Director of Research & Insight at NeuGroup, and Steve discuss the evolving role of the CFO and the finance function in the face of the transformational change taking place in their businesses.
Nilly recently published research on the topic (link below) and shares insights from the study on this episode of CFO Talk.
