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Your biggest achievement in 2023?
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Your biggest achievement in 2023?
I love this question and as it’s the last day of 2023, I’d thought I’d ask it to the masses!
For me, it’s been saving GENCFO from the shambles of the Truss days, 49 to be precise…. what a fool she was/is/will be forever in my world!
For many boutique businesses, uncertainty is a killer, after all we don’t have lots of resources and reserves to tread water through uncertain times.
Liz, the Great Tit of the political world, brought uncertainty, risk, pain and months of delay to my business. I don’t like her for that!
BUT, what does not break us makes us stronger and all that! So well done team and roll on 2024!
Would love to hear from the community on biggest achievements below ????
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But we now have a new term called Trussonomics, and that wouldn’t have happened without the great economist Truss ???? students will study this for years to come and we’re all the wiser ????????♂️
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So true, and I am a firm believer of learning from mistakes. Like the time I joked to a grad colleague that the MD wanted to see him. Before I could say ‘joke’ he jumped up and ran into the MDs office, mid meeting! I felt awful, funny, but I didn’t do that again!
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I love this. Congratulations, Chris, on saving GENCFO through the Truss days for the benefit of us all. Thank you.
My biggest achievement of 2023 was sticking to it and continuing to talk about AI. In previous years, I felt like people thought I was a little crazy; 2022 was even tougher.
But in 2023 came awareness, thank you to CHAT-GPT, and with that came curiosity.
2024 is going to be exciting in finance. With so much talk about communication and FBP, why did we ever lose this part of finance? It is time to get back to where we are meant to be.
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Oh I know how that feels. I started talking tech to finance back in 2009, it was a lonely place. It’s fair to say back then, nobody wanted to consider tech changing business engagement, business partnering, finance service value to the business , we were so siloed and focused on tech in fin ops.
That has changed. ????
Early adopters can be lonely, but the masses will come Marie.
In fact most full members have known about GENCFO for years, once ‘in’ they get it.
It is cool to find your tribe, but difficult to find it!
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It’s still melting my brain that, in an industry of hundreds of thousands of finance professionals, the tribe feels so small, @chris-a . I think my biggest achievement of 2023 was probably finding my place in my professional network at last, with a lot of help from that fateful (in a good way) DFF award application! The GENCFO crowd (yourself & the team, Becky, Andi, Hannah, Mike etc), the tech/FP&A tribe on LinkedIn (Adam Shilton, Nicolas Boucher, Paul Barnhurst, Wyn Hopkins etc) & ACCA (Amanda Thurlow, Clive Webb etc)… it’s a tiny group, but collectively it’s setting the tone & the bar for finance ops & business partnering standards nationally and beyond, and I feel like I’m a part of the team. That rocks, tbh.
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