Thriveal CPA Network | Book Review

10/15/2012

Love Works: The Tension Between a Healthy Bottom Line and A Happy Team

I have been enjoying Love Works by Joel Manby. It’s a leadership book. It’s one of those books that, when you are reading it – or listening, in my case – you’re thinking, “Exactly!” the whole time. It’s like you already knew the concepts, but it took another person to articulate them and make sense of them with stories and examples.

Love Defined: Joel Manby defines love as being a verb. It’s not the mushy romantic feeling or the word we use when we REALLY like something. We throw the word love around to mean all sorts of things, but the Greeks had many words for different kinds of love. For the sake of leadership in a work setting, the word for love discussed by Mr. Manby is agape. Agape leaves feelings out of the equation and focuses on commitments and decisions.

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02/01/2011

VeraSage Institute Summary

I recently got back from the VeraSage Institute meeting in Napa Valley, California. “The VeraSage Headache” (as Ron Baker puts it) is still lingering. The thought leaders there from all over the world really stretched me and the vision I have for our firm. I’m thankful that I was asked to participate.

I’m thinking through firm branding and positioning right now. In a world of “sameness” accountants desperately need to know who they are and why they do what they do. And even more importantly, they need to know what they are NOT. If we think we are for everyone, then we are for no one. I’m learning to narrow whom we serve globally, wrapping our commodity services in heavy value and charging a valuable fee for what we do.