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06/17/2013

Are You Changeable?

It’s conference season for CPAs. You have many opportunities to gather with groups of colleagues to learn and improve yourselves. There are a few reasons people go to these events; for the required CPE, to see friends, and to learn. If one of the reasons you are going to an event is to learn or to better yourself, then this post is for you.

I’m interested in what makes a person changeable. What makes you take what you hear at a conference and turn it into something you DO? What makes a person stop doing one thing and begin doing it another way? I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit lately as I try to change the way I care for myself. I’m in the process of changing several (bad) habits that have kept me from being as healthy as I could be. In thinking through what makes a person change, here are my observations. Read more

Category:: Other Thoughts, Personal Growth
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06/03/2013

Be Open To Randomness, But Not Random

This past year our team undertook the effort to re-design our customer on-boarding process. We met and started brainstorming over some basic questions: What does the customer care about? What should they care about? Any and all items were noted up on our whiteboard wall. Read more

Category:: Management and Operations, Other Thoughts
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02/04/2013

Endless Limits

The problem of our age is too much choice.

Endless possibilities are endless. Technology lifts limits, but provides no direction. The land of opportunity is all potential.

The result: dissipated energy.

“A large part of the beauty of a picture arises from the struggle which an artist wages with his limited medium.” -Henri Matisse

Category:: Other Thoughts, Personal Growth
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06/04/2012

Greg Takes a Dump on Non-Accounting Majors

You aren’t a dumbass like your cousin. Who the hell majors in Romance Literature?

There’s no excuse for it. Did your cousin really think it was a good life choice to become an expert in the heroic narrative prose and verse popular in high medieval and early modern Europe? Or did he chose his major because he confused romance literature with romance novels, and didn’t change his major even after reading the complete works of Chretien de Troyes and not a single masterpiece by Danielle Steel?

Category:: Business, Other Thoughts
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05/18/2012

Rethinking the Resume

As I began hammering out a hiring process for our CPA firm, I realized about half way through that nowhere in the process had I even considered requesting a resume. Later, I did insert that as an optional step about halfway through the process. But why? (Always start with why!) The more I thought about it, the more I wondered what purpose the traditional resume serves in our digital world.

What has been the purpose for creating and sending resumes to potential employers? To land an interview. Our idea was to have people fill out a wufoo form online to give us some very general information and then we would go from there to see if an interview was warranted.

If our potential team members want to give us a traditional resume (a few already have), that is fine. The information is helpful. However, if that same information can be provided in a well written email, a video, or over the course of a few interviews, then a resume will certainly not be required to work with us.

Category:: Business, CPA firm, Management and Operations, Other Thoughts
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03/11/2012

CPA Happenings at SXSW

Freakin’ Cloudsway (a hot new document management/accounting product going live soon) flew Jody Padar, myself and Greg Kyte out to SXSW to spend time with Kasey Bayne and the crew of Freshbooks at their ranch. Our motto was “CPAs Gone Wild” and we cleared out a deck of loyal Freshbooks users when we started the live podcast taping (sorry about that).

Category:: Other Thoughts, Videos
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