The best Finance leaders choose important over urgent
By Andy Burrows
I’m continuing a series where I’m trying to show the power of some key ‘soft’ skills that Finance business partners should learn, and CFOs should have.
Today, I hope to show you how to make time to focus on what’s important. This is not simply prioritisation. And whilst you may feel that you’ve heard most of it before, I’m going to finish up by showing you why your prioritisation is probably not working in your daily organisation.
What I’ve said so far is that the core of the behavioural skills you need are all about “personal effectiveness”. If you can’t lead yourself personally, how can you lead or influence others as a Finance business partner or CFO?
There is a real difference between average Finance business partners and the high performing, highly effective Finance business partners and CFOs.
Average Finance business partners continually complain about not having time to do business partnering...
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