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A good CFO looks not at what the numbers are, but what the numbers mean. Mine did, and he quickly grasped that private offices are cheaper than open space. Lan
by valuearb 9y ago
A good CFO looks not at what the numbers are, but what the numbers mean. Mine did, and he quickly grasped that private offices are cheaper than open space.
Landlords hate them though, so we had to fight that battle too.
- mschuster91 9y ago> A good CFO looks not at what the numbers are, but what the numbers mean. You need a CFO who is not totally detached from the base employees. It scales with the company size... when the CFO is in the same dungpit as the rest of the crew, he/she will quickly see the downsides, but if he is on a separate floor, or worse, different city or even country, good luck.
- valuearb 9y agoIt's helpful when leaders share the same conditions as their employees, but not necessary. It's absolutely necessary that they are able to put themselves in their employees shoes. In this case I was able to walk him through how developers work, and the importance of having long periods of unbroken concentration. I also talked about the mythical man-month which he was familiar with, so he understood that 3 focused engineers can crush 5 distracted engineers, not just in individual productivity but in reducing the chain of communications that slows everything in a project down.