The Firm of the Future: A Guide for Accountants, Lawyers, and Other Professional Services by paul dunn

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April 26,2025

This book is liberating. It liberated me from old paradigms about how a professional service firm should work. This work, and others by Ron Baker, has led me to look at things in a different way, and do things differently.

One of these days I'll do an even better review.

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prophet001

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April 26,2025

Ron Baker’s first book, Professional’s Guide to Value Pricing

“The Shift from Hourly Billing to Value Pricing.”

“Why?,” and Paul was the guy who would say, “Why not?”

“what is” with “what could be.”

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. —Thomas Jefferson

wondered out loud

“Oh Lord it’s Monday

“Thank God it’s Friday”

Richard Burton described in The Anatomy of Melancholy (second edition, 1624): “Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.”

I did my first program with Paul in September 1999 in San Diego.

apogee

what you are about to read is a shot across the bow of the present orthodoxies of the professions, because we have discovered most of what passes for conventional wisdom is more conventional than wisdom

authors of The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Profitable Decision Making

Milton and Rose Friedman’s autobiography, Two Lucky People

A fee is negatively associated with a tax or some other charge, while price is a benign term most customers easily comprehend, conjuring up no positive or negative images. It is not our objective to change your vocabulary, we simply are far more comfortable using words we believe elicit superior images in others’ minds.

We want to have you think with us, not like us

“Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.”

what statisticians call path-dependent—that is, the older I became, the greater the chance that what I would be in the future would be influenced by what I was in the past.

Peter Drucker simultaneously and independently coined the terms knowledge society and knowledge worker, the latter in his book, The Age of Discontinuity

working on theories, but rather on the practical challenges of, say, building a Pepsi plant in Leningrad or an auto factory in Brazil.

Newtonian or Einsteinian leaps

Tout nouveau, tout beau—which freely translated means, “Fools see beauty only in new things.”

The Firm of the Future is not about predicting the future; it is about helping to shape and create the future.

From Microsoft and Oracle to McKinsey and Accenture, more and more companies are realizing that it is knowledge and ideas that create wealth, not tangible things like real estate and oil. We live in a world dominated by mind, not matter.

The root of educate, educere, means to “draw out,” not to stuff in

a new zest for the profession—it need not be dull and boring any more

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GuitarJunkie996

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April 26,2025

El Futuro Del contador

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uwu32

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April 26,2025

Amazing

This book sets out and proves that people don’t buy your time when hiring you as an accountant. They buy results. Why cap you earning by billing by the hour?

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deli_tiger

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April 26,2025

Brings alive what I've learned in Service Excellence for business owners, service leaders and C-suitors.

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jadedgalaxy

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April 26,2025

Yes he is my brother, but this is still one of the most dog eared books in my collection. Ron always challenges the sacred cows and shines a light on satisfying your customer and adding value.

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Bl4ckEnvy

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April 26,2025

Fabulous
Fantastic
Futuristic
Friendly to the reader
Featuring all relevant information
Amazing Book

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