by Rob Pillans | May 18, 2021 | Articles
Recently I participated in an interactive webinar with Marcus Buckingham who is a well known author and speaker on management and leadership topics. The topic was resilience. If there was one thing the COVID pandemic has shown us it is that not everyone has the same...
by Rob Pillans | May 18, 2021 | Articles
Recently I participated in an interactive webinar with Patrick Lencioni who is a well known author and speaker on management and leadership topics. His view is that the goals of a leader are to make the organisation smart and to make it healthy. Lencioni also holds...
by Rob Pillans | Apr 19, 2021 | Articles
As an accounting firm coach, consultant and mentor I get to see inside many accounting firms. One thing I observe is a high proportion of senior people, partner/director and manager level in particular, doing work that could and should be done by someone at a lower...
by Rob Pillans | Mar 18, 2021 | Articles
Putting my accounting firm consultant hat on for a moment, here are four ideas to build a better firm. The right people I’ve put this first for a very good reason. You can have all the latest technology but in my view the success of your business still comes back to...
by Rob Pillans | Mar 18, 2021 | Articles
There is a TED talk by neuroscientist Russell Foster on sleep which I found most enlightening. (See the TED talk here.) I also read some articles from the Sleep Medicine Division of the Harvard Medical School. Here is a summary of what I learned. Russell Foster...
