If you’re going to be of value, whether as a consultant, employee, leader, trusted advisor, board member, etc. you have to be able to deliver a tough message. This is what company leaders need. Too often, they are surrounded by …
There is classic children’s story, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff which whimsically discusses the downstream events of giving a cookie to a mouse. The mouse will then need milk to wash the cookie down. When …
Comfortable? I hope not. Unless you have obtained a level of wealth that makes you bullet proof from downward changes to your business or employment status, then it doesn’t pay to get too comfortable. Years ago, someone said to me: …
No, I’m not talking about Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey or Delaware. Rather, I’m talking about your mental state. What is your view on life particularly with respect to your business activities? Are you one of those people who …
If I ask you to think about your net worth, my guess is that most readers come up with a dollar amount. I suppose that’s reasonable BUT I think about it differently. I start with a dollar amount for the …
In the movie, Invincible, with Mark Wahlberg, there is a line “Let’s go, gentlemen, find another gear.” That line is inspiration for today’s writing on transaction work. During 2024 I wrote two articles on exit strategy. The first, A Word …
Business relationships don’t last forever. Sometimes they come to a natural end (for example, a project that has a specific duration) and other times they may be longer term in nature but for some reason one of the parties chooses …
What does your customer experience? And how do you really know? Have you ever tried to personally experience your business the way that a customer might? For the life of me, I don’t think many have and I don’t understand …
I have a long held belief that “minutes matter”. Throughout my career, I have always looked for the most efficient way to accomplish a task. And I am always amazed at how many inefficient practices have persisted for years when …
Nothing in this email is intended to denigrate my CPA friends or the CPA community as a whole. That said, if you work as an accountant in a company and are given AJEs or RJEs by your outside CPA you …
