L. Gary Boomer

A firm's strength lies in its dedicated team of professionals committed to ensuring client satisfaction, regulatory compliance, and streamlined operations.

The process requires time to think, plan and grow individually and as a firm.

Five observations on critical factors in the future of accounting (and every other profession, too).

Accounting firms need to get ready for the surprises that lead to increased learning and knowledge.

Communications, processes and resource allocation directly address firms' current capacity and capabilities issues.

When properly tuned and integrated, these are powerful engines that can accelerate and drive an accounting firm's journey from survive to transform to thrive.

Simply using the tools available to evaluate accounting professionals is not enough for assessing your tech staff.

Challenging times only make having a shared vision and game plan more important for accounting firms.

Mindset and culture are paramount when it comes to winning at change.

These five titles will help you understand the challenge, figure out your strategy, and start executing on it.

And painful mistakes can be a catalyst for making important investments in the future.

A look ahead at the tools of the future, and how accountants will be using them.

While resiliency is important, adaptability is required to move forward into new opportunities.

Dividing the responsibility for innovation within your firm without a clear vision and plan can result in disaster.

Capability, courage, commitment and confidence are critical to successful advisory services.

Firm leaders all too often spend more time on strategy than on culture, but that may be a mistake.

What is predictable is that leadership requires hard work, balance and time off to explore, access to resources, accountability, and an abundance mindset.

Employees and clients don’t leave your firm based upon the brand. They leave because of relationships.

Hybrid environments, self-directed work, an ever-faster pace of change and a number of other factors make this agile, adaptable approach more important than ever.

These five questions may stimulate your firm to change the way it thinks.