HeyJaredKyle Walters
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You're never too large to be a swarm, or too small to be a battleship (opens the original)
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In my last column I discussed why the large-firm vs. small-firm debate is irrelevant. When it comes to who's best positioned to survive the uncertain future of our profession, the advantage is autonomy. Just as drone swarms beat ships in wartime through independent action, firms that let their teams experiment freely "above the waterline" while keeping standards rigid "below" the waterline continue to win.If you think about it, every firm has a waterline. Below the waterline, a ship is vulnerabl
Ship versus swarm (opens the original)
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An advisory firm owner told me something a few weeks ago that has been stuck in my mind ever since: "Kyle, most firms are aircraft carriers. They're too slow. We're more of a pirate ship." He was joking, mostly. It took me a moment to understand where he was coming from. But I realize he came up with a clever way to describe the argument that everyone in our profession seems to be having: whether the next decade will belong to the big firms or to the small ones. You can make either case, and bot
Peacetime made you successful. Wartime will decide if you survive (opens the original)
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For most of the last 40 years, running a tax and accounting firm was a peacetime job. The wind was at your back the whole time, and it was easy to mistake that tailwind as the result of your own rowing. The phone rang on its own and a continuous flow of referrals showed up without much effort. Clients didn't comparison-shop you or push back on fees because they didn't know there were alternatives. Compliance work was a moat. It was annual, mandatory, recurring — like your physical and dental che
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