“Bill, I’m not sure what you’re asking the committee to do with the material you sent out for the meeting.” The man on the phone was the committee Chair and he wanted to be sure he understood what was being …
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CGA Magazine, the voice of Canada’s Certified General Accountants, has an article encouraging accountants to blog. If you’re an accountant, you should read it (not just because it mentions this blog as a good example!) If you’ve got something to …
This is how a team falls apart: Remove a key player, and the social bonds that keep their friends on the job weaken. Before you know it, you’ve got a group of employees collecting paychecks, not a team working for …
Is this your image of a conductor, someone who insists on being called “maestro”, someone with a whim of iron who can quell opposition with a single insult, someone who makes trained professionals quake in their boots? Now, let me …
When I looked up “Business Management” on the Amazon web site, I was greeted with more than 171,000 titles. How do you decide which ones are worth while? What I do is wait. Most of the management books I read …
It takes a lot of talent to be a consistently funny writer for your whole career, but John Cleese has done just that. I was a Monty Python fan and watched the TV show every week. I quoted Python skits …
It’s the monthly church roast beef dinner fundraiser, only this time a health inspector has come and is asking probing questions. What do you do? The insurance on your building is about to renew and the valuation is out of …
This blog is all about energizing accounting staff by providing them with the best use of their accounting system. You will be a more productive, more effective team member if your tools save you time rather than getting in the …
Stephen Covey has a wonderful story about teaching his son to take care of the lawn, which I won’t spoil here except to say that it was a difficult process and he has to remind himself constantly that the goal …
Harry is one of our unit managers. His normally calm, diplomatic voice takes on a sudden energy as he leans across the table and says, “People seem to think that any mission will do. That’s just not true.” Harry has …