The recent crisis in the financial markets has exposed serious flaws in management methods. The failure to anticipate and deal with the consequences of the unfolding collapse has starkly illustrated what many leaders and managers in business have known for years; in most organizations, the process of forecasting is badly broken. For that reason, forecasting business performance tops the list of concerns for CFO's across the globe.It is time to rethink the way businesses organize an...

There’s a bewildering array of management tools out there. And they all promise to help you excel at the toughest parts of your job: defining your organization’s strategic direction, managing customers and costs, and boosting workforce performance.But just 30 percent of these tools deliver as intended. Why? As Jeremy Hope and Steve Player reveal in Beyond Performance Management, while many tools are sound in theory, they’re misused by most organizations. For example, execu...

There's a bewildering array of management tools out there. And they all promise to help you excel at the toughest parts of your job: defining your organization's strategic direction, managing customers and costs, and boosting workforce performance. But just 30 percent of these tools deliver as intended. Why? As Jeremy Hope and Steve Player reveal in Beyond Performance Management, while many tools are sound in theory, they're misused by most organizations. For example, executives b...

Stewart was the Fire Captain's son and Stewart wanted nothing more than to become a junior fireman, a "fire boy." Finally the Captain agreed and Stewart had a bed right along with the regular firemen.When the first alarm sounded Steward was so excited he forgot to put on his boots and all the firemen waited while Steward went back for his boots. Needless to say, this made them late to the fire and everyone was upset. The firemen began calling him "Scatter-Brain Stewart." This behav...

A little boy thought it would great fun to call in a fire alarm to watch the firemen and their engines come to his house. When the firemen got there and found no fire they were upset. This happened two more times and after the third time the Fire Chief was so upset he told the little boy they would not come out to one of his alarms again. The next day the there really was a fire at the little boy's house and no matter how loud the little boy yelled the firemen would not respond and the hou...

This book provides a surprisingly straightforward, easy-to-understand guide to one of the most powerful financial tools in business: a reliable financial forecast. It's the secret to driving growth, profitability, and cash flow higher and higher in your company.