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Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change
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Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change

by Ph.D. Gregory Shea, Robert Gunther
August 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
272 pages
4h 54m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 2. Working the Eddies: Pace Yourself to Preserve Your Sanity

 

Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight’s past.

 
 --Thomas Moore

The new CFO of the European division of a large, U.S.-based multinational company understood and savored the fact that he had taken on a uniquely challenging job. The senior corporate leadership wanted to transform the division’s financial operations from “just” pure finance and accounting to provide in-house consulting to field operations. He and his people would not confine themselves to keeping score. They would also help field executives improve their scores through better understanding of financials and their drivers. The CFO and his staff would help the field executives ...

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