what kind of leader are you?

cartoon of good vs bad leader

good vs. bad leadership.

by liz farr

i am fascinated by leadership. that’s likely because i’ve had way more experience with poor or mediocre leaders than with great leaders. let me tell you about examples at the extremes.

more from liz farr: jason blumer & julie shipp: move leaders out of client service | brandon hall: firms try to make too much on tax prep | amber setter: coaching helps resolve the tension between safety and purpose | james graham: drop the billable hour and you’ll bill more | karen reyburn: fix your marketing and fix your business | giles pearson: fix the staffing crisis by swapping experience for education | jina etienne: practice fearless inclusion | chris vanover: question the why or stay with the status quo | jason deshayes: what we’re doing isn’t working
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in 2002, my accounting career began with a job at h&r block in rural new mexico. it was my first job where it was important to be at work on time. all my previous jobs had been as research assistants in biochemistry. my schedule was flexible, and as long as i kept up with the necessary work to move the project forward, my supervisors generally didn’t care when i did the work.

what kind of leader do you want to be?

do you want to be the kind of leader people want to follow? who is honored, as julie shipp is, “to go shoulder to shoulder with you”? or the leader who relies on constant and pointless check-ins?

if you’ve never spent time at a retail tax prep office, you may not be familiar with the stampede of people who show up as soon as they get their w2s so they can get their eitc refunds as soon as possible. this office was in a low-income area, so for a few weeks in february, when the doors opened at 9 a.m., we had enough people lined up outside the door to keep us busy until noon or beyond.

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jason blumer & julie shipp: move leaders out of client service

intentionality can bring freedom and joy.

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the disruptors
with liz farr

when jason blumer and julie shipp joined forces to build blumer cpas more than a decade ago, they eschewed the traditional partnership structure, where decision-making power depends on ownership percentage. instead, blumer says, “we figured out the ownership is a legal reflection of the companies, but they do not reflect anything we do together in our roles.”

more podcasts and videos: james graham: drop the billable hour and you’ll bill morekaren reyburn: fix your marketing and fix your business | giles pearson: fix the staffing crisis by swapping experience for education | jina etienne: practice fearless inclusionbill penczak: stop forcing smart people to do stupid worksandra wiley: staffing problem? check your culture | scott scarano: first, grow people. then firm growth can follow |

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together, they also formed thriveal, a support community for accounting firm owners. blumer is the ceo and visionary for the firm and shipp is the coo and integrator. this separation of ownership from roles allows them both to be, as shipp says, “100% in my role and have 100% the authority of my role.”

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your client base is global

it’s yours if you want it. get radical.

by jody padar

i had just come off a really bad tax season and i knew there had to be a better way. i left a midsized firm, with seven partners and about 50 other employees and i joined my dad’s firm – literally and figuratively. figuratively, because many of his technologies and processes were “old school.”

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i was tired of working part-time and not being treated like a contributing member of the firm. my family was young. my son was four years old and my daughter was six. my son was in the process of getting ready for full-time kindergarten and things were just changing in my life. i no longer felt the need to only work part-time, so it seemed like the right time.
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the radical cpa: always changing

chalkboard reading "free thinkers wanted"how did we get here and where are we going?

by jody padar
the radical cpa

people always ask me why “radical”? isn’t it a charged word?

what’s so radical about me?

more on radicalism: the four factors for fixed pricing | clients buy solutions, not time | narrow your social focus | how to measure social business… and why | 6 ways the cloud helps cpa firms | you’re already a consultant
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when i talk about radical, it’s not so much about me, but about my beliefs and actions.
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true diversity: the next frontier for the accounting industry

jennifer scott sum innovation hr
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understanding the business case in the tax & accounting workplace.

by jennifer scott
sum innovation

workplace diversity may best be described as the blend of individual and organizational characteristics, values, beliefs, experiences, and behaviors — all coming together to achieve a company’s vision.

catch sum innovation founder and ceo mathew heggem discussing “the art of hr” with jason blumer and greg kyte in a thriveal podcast here.

vision is an important concept for small businesses. there are multiple definitions of the word: the sense of sight, a thought or perception, an apparition, even an amazingly beautiful image. but in a business context, a vision is a future-focused statement about what an organization intends to become.

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