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‘Long gone are the days where we just provided numbers’: The CFO-to-CEO pipeline is growing but does a finance background always make a good leader?

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‘Long gone are the days where we just provided numbers’: The CFO-to-CEO pipeline is growing but does a finance background always make a good leader?

One in five new CEOs at Europe's largest listed companies came from finance last year. But the shift from managing the numbers to running the business requires a broader set of skills.

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‘Long gone are the days where we just provided numbers’: The CFO-to-CEO pipeline is growing but does a finance background always make a good leader? Fortune

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