CFO Frameworks

Luck Gets You In the Door. Systems Keep You There.

Your guide to year one of CFO Frameworks - where to start, what to read, and what's coming next

Jan 3 • Taylor Otstot

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August 2025

WAIT for it

The CFO’s guide to speaking up when it matters...and shutting up when it doesn’t

Aug 13, 2025 • Taylor Otstot

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June 2025

Upstream or Underwater

Why unchecked ideas drown your team - and how smart leaders raise the gate

Jun 30, 2025 • Taylor Otstot

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A Light Touch

The useful leadership skill that creates capable, empowered teams

Jun 10, 2025 • Taylor Otstot

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May 2025

The ABCs of Partnership

Five strategies that pull Finance off the sidelines and into every decisive huddle

May 22, 2025 • Taylor Otstot

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See the Good

How to spot potential, reduce risk, and scale upside with the SEE Framework

May 16, 2025 • Taylor Otstot

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April 2025

Decision Debt: The Hidden Cost of Every (In)Action

How today's shortcuts become tomorrow's constraints — unless you intervene

Apr 29, 2025 • Taylor Otstot

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Fast is Fragile

Why Urgency Needs Autonomy to Survive

Apr 18, 2025 • Taylor Otstot

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The Motivation Multiplier: Why Meaning Beats Money

Bonuses, perks, and pressure only go so far. Here’s a framework to unlock performance through purpose—and avoid accidentally undoing your team’s…

Apr 10, 2025 • Taylor Otstot

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Confident… and Completely Wrong

How “Fast Thinking” and a Lack of Story Sense Undermine Great Judgment

Apr 2, 2025 • Taylor Otstot

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March 2025

Less Beats More

Progress doesn’t always need a plus sign

Mar 27, 2025 • Taylor Otstot

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Lean & Large

Leveraging natural cycles to grow a business efficiently

Mar 16, 2025 • Taylor Otstot

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