My Courses

I keep hearing the same line from finance teams and internal auditors. “We want to use GenAI. We just don’t want it to blow up our controls.” That tension is real. Generative AI compresses decision cycles and scales work fast. It also introduces risks that traditional governance models did not plan for. The good news…

How much does it actually cost to let an AI do your job for you? I found out the hard way recently. I sat down to build a dashboard app and decided to let an AI agent handle the heavy lifting. I fired up Claude Code. I am a Pro user. I pay my $20…

I used to look at trade law as a niche topic for international conglomerates. That changed when I saw a client’s margins get wiped out overnight by a surprise tariff schedule. It wasn’t a business failure; it was a policy shift. That is why the Supreme Court ruling on February 20, 2026, is so critical.…

I spend a significant amount of time staring at financial statements. Usually, the story they tell is boring. Revenue goes up, expenses go up, margins stay flat. But when lines on a graph that should move together start running in opposite directions, I pay attention. That is exactly what is happening with Palantir, and it…

Is AI just a shiny object we talk about at conferences, or is it actually doing the work? I’ve been asking this question a lot lately. To get a real answer, I dug into the data from the newly published IDC InfoBrief, “The Future of Audit and Accounting in the AI Era” (February 2026). I…

When I was at PwC, I noticed a distinct pattern in who stayed and who left. I knew plenty of smart people who quit simply because they were stuck with a specific manager or partner. On the flip side, I consider myself successful largely because I was fortunate enough to be matched with leaders who…

For a long time, the CFO was the person you avoided in the hallway if you wanted to spend money. They were the scorekeepers, the gatekeepers, and frankly, the “no” machine. Their job was historical—looking backward at what happened to ensure the books balanced. But I’ve been digging into the latest course release on the…

Let’s be honest. Most annual goal-setting exercises are a waste of time. You write down a vague intention in January, bury it in a spreadsheet, and then scramble to justify your existence in December. I first picked up John Doerr’s Measure What Matters a few years back on the recommendation of some partners at PWC. It didn’t…

We were promised a vacation. The narrative around AI has always been about automation. The idea was that these tools would handle the drudgery—the boring data entry, the repetitive emails—and leave us with more time for high-value creative work. Or better yet, just more time off. I wanted to believe that. But lately, I’ve noticed…

I keep seeing the headlines. You have probably seen them too. They claim accountants, lawyers, and coders will be obsolete in a year. If you ask a startup founder, they look at an AI-generated legal memo and say, “This is perfect. Lawyers are done.” If you ask a lawyer, they look at the same memo…