Tom So

As finance has started to take on more responsibility and influence within organizations, the technology enabling CFOs and finance teams has lagged. Most finance workflows, such as annual planning, quarterly actuals reporting and reconciliations, tend to be managed within disconnected spreadsheets with no automation or collaboration capabilities.

Applying process by the book: With Agile or Scrum, there's no need to apply the rules as they come, but interpreting them in order to find the right balance for your team

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Most companies do not operate in ways they realize their vision by continuously aligning business goals with customers' needs and pain points. Product teams need to be aligned on business objectives and be allowed to operate at an initiative level to impact those objectives.

Author describes different processes to set product team... See more

Top down vs Bottom up approach in company decision making and autonomy: No extreme is good, there's just different flavors of it

Treating your org as a product, use new hires as testing of the operating ways and have them provide candid feedback

Transitioning a career to think more about purpose is a typical evolution many people find mid-career (or at least it was for me). You could define mid-life as the transition to deeper purpose – society is clear that you should establish your mastery of something in your 20’s and 30s; it’s less clear what to do with it in your 40’s and 50’s (hence... See more

If Autonomy is about contracts with others and Mastery looks inwards at improving yourself, Purpose asks how you want your toils to contribute to the wellbeing of others.