by Patrick R. Coyle | Sep 1, 2026 | Leadership
Automating a close you have not simplified buys you the same close, faster, and makes it permanent. This field guide sets the sequence: count the manual touches, delete steps before standardizing, standardize toward the more rigorous version, automate only the...
by Patrick R. Coyle | Sep 1, 2026 | Leadership
I had constructed a Silent Leak™ inside my own finance organization, and I did not see it until it was already there. When we moved to remote work I solved for infrastructure, and every system reported healthy while the unplanned conversations the organization...
by Patrick R. Coyle | Sep 1, 2026 | Leadership
A multi-year rebuild of a finance organization, run as a sequence rather than as a structure. As CFO for the Americas, I ran it in one order every time: simplify, standardize, automate, measure. Automating a broken process does not transform it. It runs the wrong...
