Daily Archives: September 20, 2013

10 Ways to Achieve Partner Accountability

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CPA Trendlines contributor Marc Rosenberg knows how to be succinct, as well as insightful. Pondering the question of accountability in a CPA firm partnership, he quotes the legendary David Maister, ““If people are not prepared to be held accountable for what they do, it is unlikely they will achieve much.” 

But then he adds his own epigram: “If there are no consequences for failing to achieve a goal, then it is less likely that the goal will be accomplished.”

That said, he presents a new checklist:

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11 Tests to Measure the Health of Your Firm’s Partner Group

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What it means to be a partner.

By Robert J. Lees and August J. Aquila
Creating the Effective Partnership

Partners are the culture in a professional service firm – what they believe, what they reward, what they do and how they do it determines what and how things get done. But, one of the problems we consistently hear about is the lack of clarity in what being a partner means. In the absence of clarity, the partners typically fill the gap by doing what they think it means, with all of the differences of thought and behavior that inevitably brings. It’s these differences in behavior that result in firms failing to maximize their potential.

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