We’ve had a few new potential clients wonder how our CXO assistance would fit into their firm. Not that they doubted we could provide excellent Chief Financial, Chief Executive, or Chief Research Officer capabilities, but how we could interface with their folks and improve their operations long-term.
Continue reading Go forth and multiply
The year is drawing to a close. Which means most of us are preparing for what we will do in 2017.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be going over how and what we should be doing (that we can still do) to save money on our taxes. But, today, I am going to ask you to consider a few things to make your 2017 great.
Continue reading Let us count the ways…
I mentioned the other day that Dupont appointed a new CEO- one that agreed to merge with Dow. And, Edward Breen was chosen as the interim CEO because he was thought to be the perfect one to turn the company around. After all, he was the one who turned around Tyco International- as long as you recognized that he did so by selling off the company piece by piece. (Oops. Maybe that’s why Dupont chose him, for real, since in essence the Dow-Dupont merger is a process whereby the merged company will be split up into three new companies- and will shed a slew of businesses, to boot.)
Continue reading Shading the truth?
I read an interesting article the other day that was directed at improving the gross revenue of lawyers. (You DO know I serve as the CFO for a variety of different entities, right?)
Continue reading Time Machine?
If it is your business to provide services to others, you darn well better understand that you aren’t really doing so, unless you have paying clients. What you are doing is not even a hobby- it’s just a waste of time.
Continue reading Rules of Engagement
