Playing to Your Strengths: Rethink Talent Development

Описание: Lisa Poslusny left corporate accounting thinking life would feel different, only to discover she’d packed her stress right along with her. Now a mental fitness coach specializing in accounting professionals, she’s learned that changing circumstances isn’t enough, and the real work happens internally. Her candid, unscripted conversation with John Randolph on Episode 89 of CPA Life moves from personal transformation to industry-wide challenges, touching on everything from the saboteur assessment (those automatic negative thought patterns that reflect overused strengths) to why accounting firms waste energy trying to fix people’s weaknesses instead of amplifying what they do best. There are many gems here: a Houston firm that built a multimillion-dollar practice by hiring part-time working moms, a tax director who found the one firm willing to let him build his own practice on the side, and a managing partner who finally admitted the real reason he opposed remote work was simply because he didn’t want it. And the thread connecting it all? “Conventional wisdom” in the accounting profession is in serious need of deconstructing.

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