Are You The Right Person?

Many leadership teams look around the leader table for someone to coordinate a strategic initiative, based on capacity, expertise, or experience. But that person may not be the right one to make it happen. Consider an initiative to create a new department to serve an...

Ownership Changes Everything

In many CPA firms, “accountability” is treated as the gold standard of performance. But in reality, accountability is reactive because it shows up after something has already gone wrong. Responsibility, on the other hand, is proactive. It’s the difference between...

High Performance Isn’t Talent – It’s Leadership

A high-performance (HP) culture doesn’t happen by accident. It develops when enough people consistently demonstrate a high-performance mindset, take the right actions, and produce strong results – until that standard simply becomes “how we do things.” Bringing...