Technical skills alone aren’t enough.
by Rick Telberg
Rarely has leadership-level talent been so important to the CPA profession and yet, perhaps, so difficult to find.
“Technical knowledge used to be the only thing a firm really needed,” says Rex Gatto, a Ph.D. in organizational psychology and a personnel consultant to CPA firms.
“But now you have to have somebody who can communicate, mentor and coach,” he says. “Someone who knows how to build a team and a succession plan and work with others to make it happen.”
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