What's your business strategy for next year? Where will you
focus and why?
We got together with a group of high-performing Accountants to
discuss their priorities, especially the 'big picture',
strategic ideas.
Here's the list we came up with. How does this compare with
your focus areas in the coming 12 months?
Delegate!
Accountants tend to take on a huge volume of work themselves.
It's challenging to get it all done... and it wears them
down.
Why don't they delegate more? Some worry that work quality
will suffer. Others say there is simply no one to delegate to. In
both cases, they have failed to invest the time to build an
organization that can absorb more work.
This is bad for the organization because it cannot scale AND the
owner who continues to work excessively. It is also bad for
employees, who don't get the opportunity to step up. Sure they
may make errors... but we all started somewhere. And if they
can't successfully complete their work, you
