I was asked an interesting question recently: is there a difference between a CFO (Chief Financial Officer) and FD (Financial Director)? Well, for a minute I was stymied. I had to give it some thought. CFO is definitely a relatively new term – financial director has always been the classic description of the most senior financial executive. But there now […]
“If you want to jump off the porch and run with the big dogs, you better learn to move in the tall grass!” This is a fun expression that takes a poke at the rigours of climbing the corporate ladder. It pre-supposes that, if you want to step up ‘there’, you better know how to […]
Is there something wrong with being a boss? Too often I find my clients are just not stepping up to their authority. They walk around with the appropriate title but they fail to claim their space as the person in charge! There is an important thing to know about this – if you cannot claim your authority with your staff, your […]
The story of Little Red Riding Hood is partly about the naivety of the child – the need to pretend that everything is alright when it is perfectly obvious that it is not. Even though we grow into adults, the inner child’s naivety remains. Some of us have this part of ourselves well nurtured. The result? […]
I don’t know about you, but I continuously find that I don’t have enough time. The thing is that we all have 24 hours in a day. How is that some people are able to do so much more? There are the obvious reasons: Work smarter. Get organised! Delegate more. Keep a to-do list. Outsource […]
Try this. . . . . ACCOUNTING IS ARITHMETIC MADE DIFFICULT I any event, the size of the numbers have grown exponentially (from shillings and pence to billions of Rands) and so the accounting systems have needed to be much more complex. Now I am not proposing that we drop the systems and revert back […]
I don’t know about you but I just don’t seem to have enough time in the day to do what needs to be done. Nonetheless I can spend an hour or two rummaging through my emails or some other mindless pursuit like Facebook! Needless to say that at the end of the day there just is […]