After 10 grumpy years Gordon Brown will finally get the job he always coveted and become Prime Minister of Blighty. I wonder how easy it is to switch from being the finance guy to being the top guy. Will he still be all over the finance function at the expense of other important roles, such as rolling on his back while George Bush tickles his nipples with a feather? Or will be overcompensate and let finance go to hell in a handbasket, spending all his time on international junkets?
I wonder this especially because after a little less than two years I am moving from being Finance Director where I work to Managing Director. Or, in American English, I am changing from CFO to CEO. And unlike Gordon Brown it was never part of my master plan.
It will be an interesting challenge and if it all goes wrong I will blame my predecessor, or the parent company, and if things go well I will go to great lengths to point out my inate genius.
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Finance Director? Flanerie? I didn't think anyone in involved in finance could be at all charmed by the art of the idle. Good to learn.
Posted by clarissa | June 17, 2007 1:08 PM
Posted on June 17, 2007 13:08