Chief financial officers (CFOs) may be the hardest working and most unappreciated members of the C-suite. The annual CFO turnover rate at Fortune 500 companies has reached 17 percent, with three out of four CFOs having five years or fewer in tenure at their current positions, as reported by The Corporate Executive Board.  “Breathing Lessons: How CFOs Can Thrive Under Pressure,” the seventh installment in the Deloitte & Touche USA LLP Straight Talk book series, was included in the February 2007 issue of  Directors & Boards E-Briefing. The article, "CFOs Offered Much-Needed 'Breathing Lessons,'" quotes Sam Silvers, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP and Breathing Lessons coauthor. “The demand for accountability and performance has never been higher, but there are CFOs who still manage to 'do it all.' They’re the ones who decide for themselves what 'all’ really means. And that’s what Breathing Lessons is all about.”

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