Growing up as an entrepreneur, I learnt very quickly that to accomplish milestones, you need to be influential! Part of this lesson was NOT to lose focus on my team, as not everyone working with me was entrepreneurial in mindset, so we all processed things differently.
At the Association for Corporate Growth’s Fall Premier program Eric Breon, Founder and CEO of Vacasa, kept the 130 business leaders attending the event on the edge of our seats.
We are living in a time of efficiency. We all want to optimize, to do more with less, to maximize return while minimizing effort.
Over the past couple of weeks we polled senior financial officers to determine their current top three priorities. The top two results highlight the struggle CFOs are facing today. Juggling the need to build solid footings for our platforms with the need to be leading edge in anlytics to deliver more insight to our stakeholders. This struggle is being played out in CFO suites globally.
“The truth is that organizations are run by people, and people run on emotions. Our feelings supply the energy to fuel our pursuit of profit and purpose. They are formidable and universal. They can’t be ignored, yet, to our great detriment, we have long pretended that emotions have no place in the office.”
