CFO Weekly · 2026-07-21 · 27 min
In this episode of CFO Weekly , Jack McCullough, Founder and President of the CFO Leadership Council, joins Megan Weis to unpack the Rodman Paradox: the idea that a company's most valuable employee may not be its best-performing one, but rather the person whose skill set is the most irreplaceable. Jack brings decades of experience as a CFO, CEO, board advisor, and leadership author, along with nearly two decades leading the CFO Leadership Council, one of the largest and most influential communities of senior finance executives in North America. Jack is the author of several acclaimed leadership books, including Secrets of Rockstar CFOs and his newest release, The Rodman Paradox . Named after legendary NBA rebounder Dennis Rodman, the paradox challenges leaders, and CFOs in particular, to look past traditional metrics and org charts to identify the quiet specialists, crisis preventers, and irreplaceable “glue” employees who keep an organization running, even when they never show up as the highest performer on paper.
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