Re-evaluating Everything

One of the great things that is coming out of the work in finance is that it forces me to actually re-evaluate every single part of the business.   Each stage, piece, structure, strategy, cost, income is now getting visibility (or at least is getting talked...

Outsourced Life–still little time

My daily life is pretty much outsourced – housekeeper takes care of the house, cooks, cleans, pays the bills, etc.  My PA manages the housekeeper.   The driving service drives me where I need to go, so I don’t have to worry about maintaining a...

Driving forward

Very nice, high energy day today.  Dimity, our new finance person, on boarded today.   Planning to spend the day with him tomorrow to lay out the foundation for the work he will have. HSBCnet working now and setup, with setup of other staff now to help...

Cerebral Day

Today was a big thinking day.   My mind has been singly tasked occupied on the org structure – execution – team setup. As a segway, I looked up today the ‘functions’ of a CEO. Here is a quote What is the CEO’s main duty? Setting strategy and vision. The...

Organizing

This whole week I have been under the weather – and although some big ideas moved forward I fell behind on a bunch of smaller admin things.   So, this morning, over a latte, with my iPad in hand I went through all my emails and added tasking to my ToDo...