I’m excited to be speaking at this year’s QB Connect conference in San Jose, CA. It’s November 15 – 17, 2017, and you’ll want to register soon (seats are filling up fast)! Come hang out with me!
I led with a provocative title. I hope I got your attention! I’m not just trying to trick you into reading this article; I actually believe the title is true. But I know it takes a while to get to a place where accounting firm owners can give up performing accounting. The whole reason I bring this up is because I’ve been interested in what it takes to scale an accounting firm lately (I actually wrote a free guide to help you do just that). I’ve been interested in this topic because Jeff Phillips, CEO of Accountingfly.com and myself will be teaching on how to scale your accounting firm at this year’s Deeper Weekend conference (see more details below).For many entrepreneurial leaders, it feels odd asking for help, or relying on others. After all, entrepreneurs are people with passion and grit to do amazing things. But that passion and grit can get you only so far as your firm starts to scale larger. It often becomes surprising that the passion begins to drain out of the Founder of an entrepreneurial company that is growing larger.
Like any other company owner, firm owners face growth issues too. But many firm owners don’t view their firms as businesses to be grown and managed. Thriveal wants to teach firm owners to look at their firms like entrepreneurial businesses. For any entrepreneurial company, there needs to be a leader leading the firm through the vision. Deeper Weekend is a place where entrepreneurial firm owners can be together, discuss their paths of growth, and challenge each other with their own personal learnings on their entrepreneurial journey.Scott Kregel, CPA is building his firm in Pennsylvania. He leads Kregel & Company, CPAs, and he has been a Thriveal member for many years. He began years ago in our coaching course to help CPA firm owners think differently about how they build their firms. And now Scott Kregel has been growing his firm, and fully participating in the Thriveal community and in Deeper Weekend.
I’m pretty much an HGTV design star. Not just because I put up crown moulding in my living room and master bedroom.¹ But also because I went to an interior design store once.
The store was called Rustica Hardware. It’s an amazing store, but the thing that dug into my brain like a Ceti eel from The Wrath of Khan was this sign they had up in their shop:
I LOVE THAT. Partly because, as I already established, I’m an HGTV design star, but also because who wouldn’t accept that challenge? Living in art is better than living in mindless acceptance of the default. I intentionally try to approach my home like an artist approaches some kind of art thing. Read more