When it comes to your business, your career or your sport, or any other interest that you might have, what does it mean to thrive in life? Well, it could mean to grow, to develop, or to flourish. But what if to thrive in life was to mean for you to reach your truest,...
When I was a kid, I used to play a board game called Snakes And Ladders. You might remember it yourself. In America, it's called Chutes And Ladders, but over here it's called Snakes And Ladders. And the concept of the game was that it had 100 squares and each player...
Ethics In Practice - The Challenge for Accountants Drawing on personal experiences of how organisations develop their core values, Paul Davis examines how accountancy firms can embed ethical decision-making. Moral decisions are rarely black and white. Yes, we have...
Accountancy firms need to rethink how they handle billing if they want to maximise practice profits and maintain a good work/life balance, says Paul Davis. Pricing is a sensitive subject. In contract negotiation, it is the moment when hearts beat a little faster, the...
How do you deal with overwhelm? Many of us have been there…trying to balance work and life, to-do lists, deadlines, meetings, family, things that have to get done, responding to emails and phonecalls… The list goes on and on! When we feel overwhelmed, we don’t devote...
In this interview you will learn… Compliance for accountants is becoming a smaller proportion of accounting firm income Accountants have NOT been listening over the years, both to what their clients are wanting and what the market is driving Clients see little value...
In this interview you will learn... Why you don’t need to start with your ‘why’ to make/promote better, future decisions What really drives decisions when you’re considering ‘how things could be’ scenarios Why the types of wake-up call stories you encounter and share...
This is one of several questions I get from people. They expect to hear things like: Identify the value you bring Invest in an ongoing marketing effort Work on your sales pitch Etc. They’re quite surprised to hear nothing like that. You see, these are all important...
Vulnerability is becoming one of those buzzwords we’re starting to hear more often. I watched an interview with author Brené Brown and in it, she explains that her 6 years of research on human connection (a critical factor for happiness) showed one consistent...
I met with a client yesterday and she told me of a conversation she had with one of her own clients. She’s working on a marketing campaign for the first time with this client. But he told her that he’d actually looked into reaching out to her on two separate occasions...
