Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
FIRM ADMINISTRATORS AND PERFECTIONISM
Look behind the scenes at successful, growing, profitable firms and I bet you find an experienced firm administrator or chief operating officer. Simply put, they keep the firm running efficiently while the partners generate revenue by providing the best possible client service.
Many of these firm administrators are very frustrated. That’s a significant other topic that I will address another time.
If you are a firm administrator/COO in a CPA firm, you might be somewhat of a perfectionist. It is a common characteristic among people like you. You do have a good reason…. you want the firm to be the absolute best it can be. Although you have been trying, in some cases, for decades, you never seem to get there.
Check out this post by Monica Lawver on her Confessions of a CPA blog. Monica quotes another great CPA profession blogger, Debra Helwig, the marketing and communications manager for IGAF Worldwide.
These two great bloggers talk about “taking it to the Happy Line” and “managing people one-on-one.”
- "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
