The Daily Read: Six ways CFOs find the time to unlock their full potential

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It’s not easy being a CFO—they not only are in charge of running a company’s finance function and executing its strategy, but also serve as a confidant and critical thought partner to the CEO. In the face of pressing and even competing demands in today’s complex business environment, how can they rise to the challenge and achieve real strategic impact? In a new article, Ankur Agrawal , Matthew Maloney , and coauthors lay out six ways CFOs can become enterprise-wide leaders, superior decision makers, and value-creating confidants of CEOs. See what it takes to excel as a CFO and create outsize value for the long term.

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Six ways CFOs find the time to unlock their full potential

It’s hard to create outsize value when you have to manage the finance function’s daily and often urgent demands. But some CFOs rise to the challenge.

Rise to the challenge

Quote of the day

“Even at a fast-moving scale-up, employees still want clear and pragmatic communications.”

—Derrick Fung, cofounder and CEO of Drop Technologies, on the importance of clear communication in “How to find opportunity in a crisis: Launching a spinoff business”

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