Book Resources

 
Strategic Health Question 4

 
HOW MUST YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES BEHAVE?

Business Breakthrough

REPORT & SUPPORTING TOOLS

How do you build a healthy working culture in your accountancy firm that profoundly improves your profits, value and growth?

A 10 minute read to learn how to take responsibility for creating a healthy working culture by building social capital and trust throughout your firm, every day and every week. 

 

REPORT & SUPPORTING TOOLS

Dissolve your business stress – build the enthusiasm in your people and your team...

A 10 minute read to identify how as a leader, you determine your team’s level of enthusiasm.

And without enthusiasm for the work they do, your people will be a major source of stress and strain. Stress and strain that can be prevented.

 

Online Articles & Downloads

BAIN & COMPANY ARTICLE

Building a winning culture

A company’s key to success is in its heart and soul.

By Paul Rogers, Paul Meehan and Scott Tanner, ‘Building a winning culture', Bain & Company, Inc, 2006 

FEARLESS CULTURE ARTICLE

How to define company values and why it matters

Core values are not buzzwords, they should drive action. Everything you need to know to turn your company values into action.

By Gustavo Razzetti, ‘How To Define Company Values And Why It Matters', FearlessCulture, January 15, 2020

HARVARD BUSINEE REVIEW ARTICLE

High-performing teams start with a culture of shared values

In today’s disruptive marketplace, every organization needs to attract, develop, and retain talent with diverse skills and perspectives. The difference between success and failure will not be in the formulation of job descriptions and compensation packages, but in the ability to articulate a higher purpose.

by Greg Satell and Cathy Windschitl, ‘High-Performing Teams Start with a Culture of Shared Values', Harvard Business Review, May 11, 2021

Mckinsey & Company video

Voicing values in the workplace

Recent years have seen an unprecedented breakdown in public trust of business, spurred in no small part by instances of unethical behavior at some of the world’s most powerful institutions.Mary Gentile, director of business curriculum at Babson College, says the real challenge for business students, employees, and executives isn’t knowing what’s right, but knowing how to act on those convictions within an organization.

by Professor Mary Gentile, ‘Voicing Values In The Workplace', McKinsey & Company, August 1, 2010

Podcasts

SUGGESTED LISTENING

High Performance Podcast 

E51 - Toto Wolff: Empathy over engineering

With Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes

Book References

SUGGESTED READING

The Advantage

Why organizational health trumps everything else in business (J-B Lencioni Series)

by Patrick M. Lencioni

Diagnostic Tool

Strategic Health Diagnostic


Work on your firm’s strategic health and you can secure your firm’s future and help your firm flourish too.

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Take the strategic health assessment today and you’ll see where behaviour (your's and your team's) fits in and how it contributes to your strategy health score plus suggestions, insights and ideas about how to improve your firm’s strategic health.


Other Chapters

Time to unlock long-term success in your accountancy firm

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Intro 1

8 questions…to build your firm’s strategic health

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Intro 2

Go long, think bigger

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Intro 3

Strategic health warning

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Intro 4

How will your firm’s strategy deliver on your personal goals?

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Question 1

What does success look like at your firm?

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Question 2

What do you and your firm stand for?

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Question 3

How must you and your colleagues behave?

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Question 4

What matters most to your clients?

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Question 5

Where is the world moving to?

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Question 6

What’s challenging your firm?

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Question 7

What is your without fail focus this quarter?

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Question 8

Strategic health warning

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Appendices