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The world’s most successful companies have hundreds of accountants and chartered financial analysts working in their accounts departments. Isn’t that reason enough why your company needs an accountant too, if not an entire accounts team / departmente Well, the answer is no. There’s more to it than just following the global business leaders. However, your company needs an accountant, and here’s why.

Everyone has heard the expression that in real estate, the three biggest factors determining the value of a person’s property are location, location, location. In business, the top three factors that determine the success of your business are relationship, relationship, relationship. As a business leader or owner, you will need positive relationships based on mutual trust and respect to take your business to the next level.

You will want to look at relationships on multiple levels.

Empowered Leadership is based on the work of W. Edwards Deming and William Glasser. It is a way of managing people to ensure the best quality product or service while taking good care of the human capital providing that product or service. These are the ten steps to doing so:

1. Create a work environment that is physically, emotionally and spiritually safe for employees. Eliminate discrimination and oppression. Discourage gossip and foster an environment of safe risk-taking.

Your employees are your most valuable asset. Not only is it your employees who create your finished product or service but it employees who are the face of your business for your business or organization. Yet many employers feel that employees are easily replaceable - the system led assembly line style replaceable worker style of management. One worker is the same as the other it is reasoned up on the top floor. Replace on number or unit with another it’s as simple as that. “That replacement unit will be on the factory floor /order desk / car shortly”

In the end it’s all about how you treat people. What goes around comes around. The profitability of your business and the overall health of your business depend on no small part on the standards and practices of how you treat and interact with your staff and employees. It’s all people treating people well.

All you have in your firm or business, no matter how you see it, comes from other people - in this specific case your staff members. Do more than treat them one well one day a year - at the company picnic or on “Secretary’s Day”.

The other day I was at a Karaoke and heard someone say that they were going to apply for one of the music reality shows, that we see too much of on TV. I don’t intend to mention the show, but instead make some truthful observations on the realities of making it big as a singer.

Funny how the minute I use the word ‘reputation’ ears prick up. We all know the power of a good reputation, and the damage a bad one can do. Businesses are concerned over matters like their environmental impact; Fair-trade policies; adherence to health and safety standards; etc because those issues impact on their reputation. A good reputation drives good publicity and ultimately longevity of a business. A bad reputation leads to bad publicity (whether via the media or simply the power of ‘word-of-mouth’), lost customers, and can ultimately result in business failure.

You may have read in Part 1 of this 2-part article, that I recently managed a highly technical SAP project that had so many problems, every morning when the alarm clock rang I’d pull the covers up over my head for fear of heading into work. But, thanks to a few of my project management strategies, and all the planets aligning in the exact right place at the exact right time, the project launched on time, on budget, and with the fewest number of defects than any other similar project in the company.

In Hollywood, they say that movie stars are only as good as their last film. Well, as a project manager, you’re only as good as your last project. Whye Because the bar is set so high. Every project has challenges, set backs, and hurdles 12-feet high, so a project plagued with problems is now the norm rather than the exception.

Many service professionals will tell you that the words ‘ethical’ and ‘marketing’ don’t belong in the same sentence. While you’d be opening another can of worms by asking for a precise definition of ‘ethics’, let’s just say for the moment that often marketing leaves us feeling a little dirty, or sleazy if you prefer. One marketing guru summed it up by saying that marketing and sales are the world’s second-oldest profession - and often are indistinguishable from the first! Is that how you feele If so, you have a problem (and you didn’t need me to tell you that!) That’s because without marketing you’re on the fast-track to retiring from a dull middle-management job at a faceless, heartless corporation. Not much in the way of choice, I hear you say!