Vol. 8 No. 6, June 2016
The Leadership Forum is a panel of the most prominent thought leaders in the profession. This month we asked two questions and asked them to respond to the questions dealing with CPA firm management and leadership.
This month's question was:
What can a firm do to continue building their CPA firm and scaling new heights, even when the vast majority of the partners are complacent?
Consultants and Other Prominent Observers
| August Aquila | AQUILA Global Advisors, LLC | www.aquilaadvisors.com [email protected] |
| This firm is definitely starting off at a big disadvantage with the vast majority of the partners being complacent. It would appear that the firm has never developed a clear vision of what it wants to become and the best way to achieve it. Nor has the firm developed criteria for partners. This is such a vast questions that it's difficult to give a meaningful answer. Nevertheless, this is what I would recommend... More | ||
| Angie Grissom | The Rainmaker Companies | www.therainmakercompanies.com [email protected] |
| Focus on the non-complacent and have them infuse life and ideas into your firm. Engage new leadership into the firm by positioning up and coming and new leaders to own initiatives or run initiatives that will impact the firm in a positive way. This can be accomplished through challenging a few people to solve a problem and giving them the freedom and resources to do so in an innovative way... More | ||
| Marc Rosenberg | The Rosenberg Associates | www.rosenbergassoc.com [email protected] |
| When I coached traveling girls' softball, our motto was: "You gotta wanna." If you want something, you have to be passionate about it, work hard and do things proactively to make it happen instead of sitting back and wishing for it.
If the majority of a firm's partners don't want to continue building the firm and are content with what they have, the odds are stacked against the firm from ever shaking loose. But fear not, there are a few possibilities... More |
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