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Ideas on Rainmaking, Leadership & Growth

Ed's thinking on building rainmakers, developing leaders, and growing a business that thrives in any climate.
Business Succession

Are You Building Leaders to Make It “Rain?”

If you were to ask your colleagues in your firm for the name of a company which had attained success not only in the current time but had also successfully prepared its structure, employees and its leaders for building future leadership and growth, what company would they name? Did your firm make the top three […]

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Leadership Development

Creating Influence for the Corporate Chartered Accountant

There you are, working with a partner or a group of partners. You’re new as a partner, but you’ve been working closely with these people for a number of years. All that time, ideas about creating new business and tweaking operations have been firing off in your brain. Now, you’re in a position to execute […]

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Building Client Relationships

The Sponsor/Exhibitor Advantage to Making it “Rain” New Customers

While overall spending and business profits were down in 2009 and somewhat flat in 2010, as the economy starts to rebound, the building of relationships in our marketplace should be at an all-time high, especially for service providers, conference sponsors and exhibiters. What seemed like downtime or recession, was and is, an opportunity to increase […]

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Business Growth Strategies

Expanding the Small Accounting Firm: Rainmaker Strategies

Imagine that all you did in your practice was the technical work. You did the taxes, the accounting and the basic management but you never participated in building  relationships with your existing clients and their staff. The result would be a static practice. When we neglect or avoid building relationships with our clients and their […]

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