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is your sense of duty misplaced?

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businessman crossing finish line after leaping hurdlesonce again, you may be your own biggest obstacle.

by bill reeb

in my opinion, most people are rarely driven by just their own desires. rather, they are influenced heavily by the desires and expectations of those around them as well as by the roles they fill.

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duty is synonymous with words like responsibility and obligation – and the thesaurus offers the phrase “what you have to do.” duty has intellectual and emotional ties to your value systems, too. therefore, to defy one’s duty is to default on one’s values.
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herding cats: advice for managing partners

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goldfish forming an arrow“effective leaders get people to follow without making them feel they are being told what to do.”

by marc rosenberg
the role of the managing partner

“few things are more important to human activity than leadership. it helps countries prosper. it makes businesses successful. parents help children become successful adults.

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“the absence of leadership is equally dramatic. without leadership, organizations move slowly, stagnate, and lose their way. we are taught that if decision-making is timely and correct, things will go well. yet a decision by itself changes nothing. more important is implementation, and that’s where organizations often fail.

“implementation is about how leaders influence behavior, change the course of events, and overcome resistance. leadership is crucial in implementing decisions successfully.” – quinn mills, harvard business school professor

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teaching the meaning of ‘done’

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angry boss in chair staring down at tiny businessmannot to be confused with the dreaded “done but.”

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

in my last book, as with this one, i recommended hiring younger staff. in that book, i cautioned that you might have to teach very simple tasks like breathing and using the bathroom to your newbies. www.g005e.com posted an excerpt with my advice.

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one reader posted that she didn’t believe it was the responsibility of an admin department to teach bathroom use. she was new to this hot new writing technique called sarcasm. she did a great job making my point that you have to teach your staff a lot of really basic things.
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internet bandwidth: how much is enough?

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illustration of bandwidth usewhat about redundancy?

by roman h. kepczyk
quantum of paperless: technology guide & checklist

the internet has undoubtedly had a profound impact on firm communications. it has become the primary driver toward the next generation of accounting applications that run entirely on the web through “cloud” computing.

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before we get ahead of ourselves discussing cloud opportunities, we have to assess how the internet is used within your firm today. most likely the internet is

  • a digital pipeline,
  • a conduit for communications, updates, research and backups, and
  • a platform for exchanging files with clients.

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price your practice by gross

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price targetbonus checklist: 11 questions to make sure you’re comparing apples to apples.

by ed mendlowitz
the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 practice doctor

question: everyone i talk to about what my practice is worth talks about a percentage or multiple of gross. just what is “gross” and why is it done this way?

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answer: you are right that practices are priced based on gross. the main reason is that this method seems to work well. however, there is a wide range of what gross is and how it is applied.
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