Revisiting a Good to Great CEO: Nucor's Ken Iverson
I'm calling Ken Iverson the Alan Mulally of CEOs in the 1980s and 1990s. "Plain Talk" by Ken Iverson is one of my favorite business books, despite its lack of self-congratulation and the absence of so...
30 Elo 202554min
A Short Booklist of Personal Finance Fiction
Can you name a work of fiction that centered around a stock picker? Alternatively, can you provide three fictional titles related to personal finance? If both answers are no, this episode provides a b...
23 Elo 202531min
The Art of Creating Glossy Annual Reports
Many in the magazine industry will tell you on the mountaintops that print is not dead. Try telling that to the writers who used to produce those beautiful glossy annual reports that are now published...
17 Elo 202545min
Valuation 8.0
Every financial executive should either have the book Valuation or have it on their physical or digital copy in their antilibrary. CFO Bookshelf is thrilled and honored to have the lead author of all ...
10 Elo 202557min
Lead by Greatness
In CFO Bookshelf's 250th episode, we feature a book that embodies the heart and soul of what this show stands for. The book is Lead by Greatness by our guest, David Lapin. During this conversation, Da...
2 Elo 202554min
You Are an IP Company
Why has Taylor Swift trademarked her and her cats' names? And how does she protect the approximately three hundred trademarks she owns? As Kary Oberbrunner tells us, we're just like Taylor in that we'...
12 Heinä 20251h
It's Not About the Coffee
We have read many stories about the magical growth of Starbucks. However, did you know that one of its first presidents had a background in furniture sales and did not hold a college degree? Our guest...
29 Kesä 202553min
What Are Visual Thinking Tools?
As my consulting practice started taking off about twenty years ago, I started reading everything I could by Fred Nickols, who blogged regularly for the software vendor, SmartDraw. Fred's articles wer...
12 Huhti 202546min
