Herding Cats: Change Management for CPA Firms
Eight good tips for getting everyone on board when change is scary.
Change is inevitable. But with a crashing a crashing economy, it is also treacherous, which makes these suggestion from August Aquila all the more urgent.
1. Know where you want to go. What are you trying to achieve as a firm and a partner group? While it’s always difficult to address the elephant in the room, now is the time to take advantage of the economic turmoil and bring all issues to the table.
2. Get others involved. If you are the only one in the firm who is pushing for the change, you might as well forget about it. When others get involved they also get committed. They provide you with feedback so that you can develop the best steps in the change process. READ MORE →