After following this blog for many weeks, and appreciating how much I have learnt from it, I thought I’d share the link:
http://www.financeweek.co.uk/ceos-diary

It’s the story of a CEO facing the same day to day issues and dilemmas that every business manager has.

OK, you may have more or less zero’s on the end of your income and expenditure targets, but the honesty, relevance, and rawness of his story is just great.

It may help to read the blog from the start, so grab a cup of your favourite brew, and enjoy.

I’m sure this is a theme I will keep returning to, but I seem to be spending more and more time talking about people rather than money. Financial conversations about issues like governance, strategy, investment, and outcomes all come back to the people in charge, and how they are directing their own, and their colleagues, in the furtherance of the businesses primary objectives.

And yet it’s so easy to lose sight of what your business is trying to do. Having an objective point of view is easy when (like me) you are “on the outside looking in”. But it’s a point of view all businesses need to have.