by Rob Pillans | Sep 23, 2020 | Articles
I’ve regularly observed within accounting and other professional firms that some people just seem to have the knack for getting more things done. Each person has the same number of hours in the day and yet some are clearly kicking more goals and seen as high...
by Rob Pillans | Aug 26, 2020 | Articles
Many of us were looking forward to the Tokyo Olympics this year but sadly that is not to be. Have you noticed that stories about the Olympics are not just about the athletes? We also regularly hear about the coaches too. So what exactly does a coach do and why is...
by Rob Pillans | Aug 26, 2020 | Articles
I wrote an article comparing accounting firm management to wine making and finished by saying: Your team and your clients are like the grapes in wine making. You source the best quality you can and then cultivate them and care for them. The result is season after...
by Rob Pillans | Jul 21, 2020 | Articles, Business Strategy
The title of this article was the title of a webinar recently hosted by CAANZ, in which father and son Richard and Daniel Susskind shared some insights from their research on the future of the professions and more recently, the impact that COVID-19 is having....
by Rob Pillans | May 25, 2020 | Articles, Business Strategy
As an accounting firm coach and consultant who gets to see under the bonnet of a lot of accounting firms, I remain convinced that the profession has an endemic undervaluing of systemised, standardised and documented ways of getting things done, which are consistently...
