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Episode 217: Right Person, Right Seat: How Accounting Firm Owners Get Both

Episode 217: Right Person, Right Seat: How Accounting Firm Owners Get Both3 Sept23 min

Before Tim met Ed Chan in 2019, hiring at his firm worked the way it does in most firms. Someone said "we need more staff," so they threw more bodies at the problem. No structure, no org chart, no way of knowing whether anyone was in the right seat. Then he and Ed spent five hours mapping every person in the firm, strength by strength, weakness by weakness, and placing each one in position. That exercise is what this episode is about. Wize mentor Tim walks through how firm owners can answer ...