Category: Accountants

Many firms are asking a difficult but necessary question: are their Partners truly driving business growth, or only equipped to simply respond to demand?...Read more about Are your Partners order takers rather than effective business development professionals?

Ask most people in professional services what makes a good consultant, and you’ll hear the same answers repeated back to you: a strong work...Read more about Beating burnout: why professional services firms should look inwards to build resilience

Turning from tokenism: it’s time for this generation of women to consider our legacy. “When I was applying to train as a barrister, I...Read more about Turning from tokenism: it’s time for this generation of women to consider our legacy.

Deep down we all have that gut feeling, but with the surge in technology and the ability to question everything at the click of...Read more about Intuition vs AI?

Last week, I was talking to a colleague about a mutual acquaintance. “She’s lovely – a bit ‘head girl’, but very nice.” I asked...Read more about What is a head girl?

It’s awards season throughout the professional services spectrum, and with clients across every sector we thought we would look at all the Professional Service...Read more about Professional Services Awards: The Winners’ Formula

Following on from Debbie Dudley’s previous 2017 point of view looking at ‘Why are there so few women at the top of Professional Services...Read more about Why are there so few women at the top of Professional Service Firms?

You’ve only got to listen to an interview with England’s lead analyst Nathan Leamon from June 20211 to realise that for years cricket, like...Read more about Data as information or interference?

10 Leadership Tips for New Partners 1.  Know your staff and your fellow Partners Relatively early on, try to establish the name of their...Read more about 10 Leadership Tips for New Partners

1.  Know your staff and your fellow Partners You cannot expect nor do you deserve to lead or influence anyone in your firm unless...Read more about 10 Practical Tips for a New Partner

You are in your home office and your virtual meetings are ‘back-to-back’. Running late, you log onto the next meeting with your team. As...Read more about Leading Virtually in the Absence of the Artefacts of Authority – Why Authenticity is Key

Welcome to November’s edition of The Pelorus: a selection of content and research Openside have discovered in the last month – which you may...Read more about The Pelorus – November 2019