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CFO’s should not have been put in charge of the game in big business. I think that is one of the major reasons why we are in the world wide pickle that we now face. The Chief Financial Officer is really nothing more than the head scorekeeper in the game of business.

He is very much like that kid who played in the local pick up game that everybody picked last. He wasn’t very skilled at the game but he knew all the rules and all the terminology. He just sucked at the game. So if you let him have the ball he wouldn’t give it back and he made a lot of stupid moves with it while he had it.

I really don’t see any difference between this childhood playground scenario and what the big bosses have done in the commercial business world. So stop blaming everything else on your poor decision to let Ernie the accountant try and throw a touchdown or hit a home run or sink any basket at all. He doesn’t know how to do that.

He can only tell you how many times he shot, how many times he missed, how many times somebody else was at fault for his inability to score a point. He’s perfect in his mind. Ernie is an accountant and not a gladiator of the game.

I think the CEO’s need to get out of their over-upholstered executive offices and start looking for the gladiators in their organizations that will provide new and productive ideas on how to make their business a force in the world market. We need new plays, new game plans, new formations, new offensive and defensive strategies. We don’t need Ernie to remind us that we are losing this game. It is already painfully obvious.

It’s time for a comeback. Let the real players show you how the game is played. It’s really quite simple. Just ask them what they think could be done to improve the team’s performance. Just don’t be surprised that you will be hearing a lot of things you didn’t think of before.

Ernie was good at another thing—blocking.

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