How Much Scoping Should Be Done Before You Take on a CFO Role?

Congratulations, you’re a new CFO—now hit the ground running with these seven key mindsets and practices that effective CFOs adopt from day one.

Joining Sean for this episode is Andy West, the global co-leader of McKinsey's Strategy and Corporate Finance Practice, Ankur Agrawal, a partner based in our New York office who leads our CFO and Capital Markets Practice in the Americas, Christian Grube, a partner in our Munich office, and he leads our CFO and Capital Markets practice across Europe, and Lauren Cooks Levitan, the CFO of Faire, a global wholesale e-commerce marketplace.

Articles mentioned in this episode: 

• Starting up as a CFO
  
• The evolution of the CFO
• The Bias Busters Collection 
• The new CFO mandate: Prioritize, transform, repeat

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