CFO Bookshelf

Updated: 30 Aug 2025 • 254 episodes
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The CFO Bookshelf weekly podcast is geared toward global financial leaders who are serious about lifelong learning and reading widely. The show's 200-plus podcast catalog features well-known authors who are experts in finance, pricing, marketing, sales, operations, organizational health, and leadership. Episodes are released weekly, and the host responds to every message he gets about the shows on LinkedIn.

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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-called transformational management concepts. Instead, this is a book about how people were treated, the concept of dece

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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 brief synopsis of four works of fiction revolving around personal finance and investing. One of the titles is new. Three

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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 in the form of PDF documents. Robert Roth is making his first-ever appearance on a podcast to discuss how an annual rep

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10 Aug 2025 • EN

Valuation 8.0

Every financial executive should either have the book Valuation or have it on their physical or digital bookshelf in their antilibrary. CFO Bookshelf is thrilled and honored to have the lead author of all eight editions of this foundational book on valuation, which is used in many financial curricula around the nation

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02 Aug 2025 • EN

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, David addresses eight vital leadership traits, defining a spiritual fingerprint and why it matters, the reason the Siberia

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12 Jul 2025 • EN

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"re all IP companies. In this engaging conversation about IP, we learn about Instant IPᴵᴾ, the role blockchain plays in I

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