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Happy or not, it's another new year

Any new year is a different year, and I’m betting 2009 is going to be seriously different: tougher than 2008 and unprecedentedly complex, a proper you-ain’t-seen-nothing-yet year.

So ring out the old, ring in the new, and out with old ways! The French say: autres temps, autres moeurs, which I’ll translate as ‘different times, different behaviours’. Horses for courses: what worked then won’t work now. Today’s problems require today’s solutions.

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Stressmass, twixtmas and an accountant's worklife balance

Christmas is coming but it’s actually twixtmas and the bleakness of January that are the real killers for many of us accountants.   Our business diaries are black with deadlines; our personal pages are bare. And we say ‘that’s life!’

Accountants? Work-life balance?
No way!

(Actually, it’s now called Life Balance, but it means the same: dual satisfaction with life and work, achieved on your terms, and holistically good for you, your company, everybody.)

But why can’t accountants achieve a balance? Have you heard the one about the frog?  Frog as in rana temporaria, the common frog who, dropped into boiling water, will leap to safety, but boiled up from ambient, will simply cook.

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Accountants: celebrating our assets

'Walk tall, walk straight, and look the world right in the eye’

(The Popes)

Er, yes, I know it’s a song about a jailbird – but hey! What a fantastic motto for a profession: what a fantastic motto for our profession!

Up until now my focus has been on sharing with you tips and techniques to enhance your personal and professional development. Today, I’m going to change tack. Today, let’s look instead at what’s right about the accountancy profession.  The features that attract over 11% of the nation’s best and brightest young graduates. A powerful technique that I’ve found my clients love.  Let’s celebrate our assets!

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Multi-tasking: eradicating the blight

The sign of the times?
...Banks collapsing?

Or how about a bunch of tourists, oblivious to the fragrant beauty of Granada’s Generalife gardens, absorbed in texting?

That’s where we were last newsletter. Everywhere technologies crowding in and human wit crowded out. Social interaction wrecked as geeks
(yes that’s us now) fidget with techno-toys.

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Multi-tasking: modern work place blight

Those Ancient Greek giants with fifty heads and a hundred hands apiece must have been whizzo multitaskers. Computers are. You, if human,are not.

Almost certainly, however, you are expected to be, have claimed to be, or aspire to be, an ace multitasker. You may even believe, mistakenly, that you are one

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