by Craig Jeffery | Oct 8, 2009 | Other
In her video interview with GTNews (link below) on 16 September, Marilyn Spearing from Deutsche Bank asked the question, “What will it take to move the acceptance of SWIFT corporate access from the current 500-or-so corporates to the 20,000 corporates seen as the...
by Craig Jeffery | Oct 5, 2009 | Other
I have often found that Gary Larson’s “Far Side” cartoons succinctly capture the problems with communication. The cartoon that says “What we say to dogs” and “What they hear” is one of my favorites. In that cartoon you see the man telling the dog Ginger to...
by Craig Jeffery | Sep 14, 2009 | Other
Imagine yourself sitting at your desk, grabbing a sip of coffee and relaxing.You and your colleagues have, after several months, finally finished implementing your shiny, new treasury software package. Whew! Now you can get some work done! The deadlines are still...
by Craig Jeffery | Jul 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
When any action or product gets wrapped up in the “it helps the children AND its good for the environment” message who is going to oppose it? Anyone? But this got me thinking – how can we push our pet causes under a green label (like getting rid of...
by Craig Jeffery | Mar 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
Mars and Venus. How finance folks can speak the same words but mean something very different. To be a successful treasurer or treasury professional, it really helps to understand these issues of equivocation (meaning same words with different meaning). Let’s...
