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After more than six years of writing for this blog, here's what I've noticed: The conversation among CPAs has gone well beyond technical issues. Today's CPAs need to know how to collaborate, connect, innovate and inspire. Tom Hood and I have been examining those issues ever since we launched CPA Success in 2007. Now, as a thank-you and brief value-add to our readers, we've compiled some of the best lessons and stories from the blog into a new e-book, Look, Lead, Love, Learn: Four Steps to Better...

"All politics is local" - Tip O'Neill  Next week we will join the AICPA and our colleagues in the State CPA Societies to make our voices heard to in Congress. Pictured is MACPA Chair Anoop Mehta, Past-Chair Allen DeLeon, and Secretary Treasurer Marianella Del Pino Rivera on the "Hill" at last year's AICPA Council meeting. We will be focused on six major issues: 1. Advocating changes needed from the "tax season from hell" * Advocating for passage of the Mobile Workforce...

Imagine the scene: It's 1997. Apple has been hemorrhaging money, and the company's formerly exiled founder, Steve Jobs, is back in charge of a company that's seemingly bleeding to death. He says this at an informal staff meeting:   "So what?" you CPAs are saying. Here's what, Tom Hood retorts: Substitute "boxes" with "taxes" and see if that passage doesn't ring true. It'd better. That unwavering focus on passion, after all, what separates great leaders from everyone else. That message was...

What kind of future would you create if there were no restrictions? Would it look like this?    Or this?   Tom Hood shared those videos with participants at the MACPA's 2013 Leadership Academy, and the implication was clear: Let your mind wander. The future you're planning for probably won't be the future you see. The pace of change is lapping our strategic planning abilities. If that's the case, why not try to make the most absolutely freakin' awesome future possible? If you...

If you stop and listen, you can almost hear the CPA profession getting smarter. Why? Because the MACPA's Leadership Academy is back in session. This annual two-and-a-half-day gathering of future CPA leaders always produces awesome results. They've co-authored a whitepaper, identified key trends that impact CPAs, and uncovered opportunities that lie within those trends. Most important, they're helping the profession bridge its infamous leadership gap by becoming leaders in their own right. This...