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‘I had to unlearn almost everything I'd learnt as a finance business partner to support the growth process. The strict accounting and reconciliation mindset aims to deliver stability and certainty. Now, I had to expand my repertoire to risk and speculative ventures, and it was uncomfortable’. What made the difference were frank conversations with

A barbelled personality—optimistic about the future, but paranoid about what will prevent you from getting to the future—is vital.

She said much of the finance industry has too narrow a view of its strategy and goals. It often becomes a short-term, almost zero-sum game with many investors focused only on small relative gains won against each other.

The theory of good money and bad money essentially frames Bhide’s work as a simple assertion. When the winning strategy is not yet clear in the initial stages of a new business, good money from investors needs to be patient for growth but impatient for profit. It demands that a new company figures out a viable strategy as fast as and with as little

Peter Drucker.

Estudos acadêmicos apontam que existe um “efeito compensatório” entre a afeição e a competência: as pessoas tendem a supor que indivíduos afetuosos são incompetentes, e que os frios são competentes.1 Esse, obviamente, não era o caso de Bill. Como o cofundador do Google Sergey Brin diz: “Ele é uma perfeita combinação entre uma mente afiada e um

The strong tendency of employees to rationalize bad conduct in order to get rewards requires many antidotes in addition to the good cash control promoted by Patterson.