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CFOs Share Their Favorite Reads of 2020
The Wall Street Journal
Chief financial officers raised billions of dollars this year to shore up their companies’ balance sheets. They cut costs, revamped revenue forecasts and pivoted strategies to help their businesses navigate the coronavirus pandemic.
Jim Sheehan, CFO of Hormel Foods Corp., an Austin, Minn.-based food manufacturer
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, by Annie Duke (2018)
“The author is a professional poker player, and in the book she provides insight into making decisions in conditions of uncertainty. With the level of uncertainty that existed in 2020, the book was certainly on topic. The concept of becoming comfortable with degrees of certainty and the fact that not all good decisions result in a good outcome were important to me in 2020.”