How to Create Good Managers

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Good managers are a special breed. They possess that most valuable, difficult and rare of skills – the ability to review others’ work.

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Review skills require deep technical knowledge combined with an extraordinary attention to detail. And that’s not all. They need dazzling communication skills to be able to deliver criticism gently.

Posted on July 3, 2019

Frank Stitely

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Frank Stitely, CPA, CVA, is the managing member of Stitely & Karstetter CPAs in Chantilly, Va., and leader of Clarity Practice Management – Sign up for the next free demo here.

He is the author of The Relentless CPA,
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He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Clarion University and received the Elijah Watt Sells certificate in recognition of his performance on the CPA exam. His professional affiliations include The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants, President of the Association of Professional Accounting Software Consultants, Member of the Sage Software Small Business Certified Consultants' Steering Committee, Member of the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, Chair of the Audit Committee on the Board of Directors for Christian Relief Services, Maryland Society of Accountants, and the National Society of Tax Professionals.

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