Good Accountants, Bad Ideas

Accountants like numbers and coming up with a good idea is a numbers game.

💡 Your first idea for an alternative procedure, process improvement, an automation workflow etc, is surface level. It's rarely your best idea.

🍝 It's like making spaghetti, you have to throw a few noodles at the wall before one sticks.

The process of rifling through bad ideas is a key but underappreciated step. By recognizing why a bad idea is bad, you're able to adjust and craft something better.

💣 If you ask a room full of accountants for ideas, less than half of the people in the room will raise their hand.

🙋‍♂️ Look around, the people with their hands up are the future leaders. Everyone else might as well just be flies on the wall.

To them I say, shoo fly, shoo!

They are risk averse, too timid to offer up an imperfect solution, too worried about the criticism they might receive. They play it safe and sit on their hands.

👏 For those who speak up and throw out an idea for the group to rip apart, bravo! No guts, no glory.

I welcome bad ideas and see them for what they are, simply a detour to a good idea. I'll take that all day long.

🔥For more tactics on standing out, check out the No Flux Given playbook