Trust is a Key Organizational Ingredient

By Steven E. Sacks, CPA, CGMA, ABC Businesses that look to the next generation of leaders have created their own templates: a composite profile of the traits that are necessary to thrive in the C-Suite. What is/was considered… Read More

Confronting Leadership: Not Such a Bad Thing

By Steven E. Sacks, CPA, CGMA, ABC Unless you are really old school (with barely a pulse), are the named and founding partner of your firm, and you rebuff what you believe are challenges to your leadership of… Read More

Selecting Your CPA Firm’s Board: Go Beyond the Eeny Meeny Miny Moe

By Steven E. Sacks, CPA, CGMA, ABC The old saying that a camel was a horse created by committee has an element of truth to it. If you think that everyone on a board or executive committee shares… Read More

Have You Gauged Your Staff’s Enthusiasm?

By Steven E. Sacks, CPA, CGMA, ABC Picking up from my January 31 post about motivation, did you ever take a survey of your firm’s staff to gauge its level of job satisfaction or how enthusiastic it is… Read More

So Much to Do and So Little Time: Achieving Success in the C-Suite

By Steven E. Sacks, CPA, CGMA, ABC There is no one right way that leadership can be defined. A high-level title is not a definition. Neither is continuous delegation of work without context nor unilateral decision making. Leadership… Read More