The CFO Show CFO’s Balancing Act: Productivity and Efficiency
Oct 1, 2024
39:45
Today's CFOs must excel at both driving organizational productivity while ensuring operational efficiency.
Brian Krause is CFO at Community First Solutions, and has over 20 years of experience building and leading financial teams, a VP of Finance, Controller, and three-time CFO. Brian joins host Melissa Howatson to delve into the distinction between productivity and efficiency, exploring how CFOs can strike the perfect balance between to drive optimal results.
Learn how to maximize productivity on your finance team without sacrificing efficiency, and vice versa.
Discussed In This Episode:
Brian Krause is CFO at Community First Solutions, and has over 20 years of experience building and leading financial teams, a VP of Finance, Controller, and three-time CFO. Brian joins host Melissa Howatson to delve into the distinction between productivity and efficiency, exploring how CFOs can strike the perfect balance between to drive optimal results.
Learn how to maximize productivity on your finance team without sacrificing efficiency, and vice versa.
Discussed In This Episode:
- Distinguishing productivity from efficiency, and the critical importance of ensuring all team members grasp this fundamental difference
- The potential pitfalls of emphasizing either productivity or efficiency
- How to leverage technology and streamline processes to build lean, agile finance teams
- Actionable insights to help CFOs become ultra-efficient leaders in today's dynamic business environment
- Strategies for finance leaders to cultivate an organizational culture that prioritizes both productivity and efficiency