Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA CEO

Leadership & Collaboration Thriving in a VUCA World

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If Content is King, Context is the Kingdom!

We  are  in  a  race…

Gradual then Sudden!

Exponential growth fueled by Technology (Moore’s Law)!

92% of CPAs are!NOT

Future Ready!!Future Ready is the

capacity to be aware, predictive, and adaptive of emerging challenges, tech innovations, and trends and

changes in business, population, and social

environment.!

Source: CPA.COM 2014 CPA of the Future Study!

The Shift Change

1. Leadership!2. Learning!3. Technology!4. Generations!5. Workplace!

The challenge & opportunity is to make the shift from the first curve to the second curve at the right time and with the

right strategy

When millennials take over…

• Digital• Clear•  Fluid•  Fast

• Anticipating and reacting to the nature and speed of change.

• Acting decisively without always having clear direction and certainty.

• Navigating through complexity, chaos, and confusion.

• Maintaining effectiveness despite constant surprises and a lack of predictability.

Leading in a VUCA world

ANTICIPATION  Strategic  Thinking  External  Awareness  Vision  Con9nuous  Learning  Innova9on  Crea9vity  Problem  Solving  Priori9za9on  Business  Acumen  Decisiveness  Influencing/Persuading  Emo9onal  Intelligence  Consensus  Building  Collabora9on  Inspira9on  Risk  Management  

An9cipatory  Organiza9on:  Finance  /  Accoun9ng  Edi9on  

CGMA Competency Framework

CO-P

The solution?

Management by Sticky Notes#MBSN

“In order to buy-in, people have to

weigh-in.”- Pat Lencioni

“None of us us as smart as all of us.”

-Dr. Ken Blanchard

The  collaboration curve  is  replacing  the  experience  curve  

“The organizations that will become the household names of this century will be renowned for sustained, large-scale, efficient innovation.

The key to that capability is neither company loyalty nor free-agent autonomy but, rather, a strong collaborative community.”

HBR, July-August 2011

Why?“We are moving from

organizations well managed to

networks well led.”- Jim Collins

What is MBSN?Management by Sticky Notes

How have we used it?

MBSN Principles

•  Wisdom of the crowd•  Participation and engagement•  Ideas are portable (sticky

notes)•  Making your thinking visible to

others•  Buy-in from co-creation

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Listen, Listen, ListenParticipation, Participation, Participation

•  Only one idea per stickie note•  Write big and neat with markers•  Ideal group size 6 – 8 people•  Pods of 30 – 40 people•  Process

•  Individual Thinking and Writing (3 – 5 minutes)•  Small Group discussion and consensus (write top 3-5

best ideas on stickies per table)•  Big Group Synthesis and Agreement

FacilitationWikipedia - is any activity that makes tasks for others easy

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•  Participation rule – Be absent or present but not both!

•  Share the air with each other•  Give the ideas time to live (they are fragile)•  Link and build•  Ground rules for consensus building

•  Love it•  Like it•  Live with it (must have this or keep discussing or move on)

Facilitation

What about your introverts?

What about these guys?

Colleagues Against Virtually Everything!

What we believe…���Finding your competitive edge – turning the flywheel

“It is hard to plan for the long term future when you don’t know what is going to happen five

minutes from now. Today, a competitive edge is thin and temporary; the edge quickly becomes

the margin.

The ability to define the edge, and the ultimate competitive advantage, is found in the smarts,

heart and ingenuity of your people - that's your powerhouse. Tap that, train it, focus it and

mobilize it; now you've engaged your network and inspired a sustainable shift.”

Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA

Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA CEO MACPA www.macpa.org and Business Learning Institute (BLI) www.blionline.org

http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhood/

If there is a conversation about the future of the profession, you're bound to hear Hood's name mentioned as one of the people leading the way.

– Accounting Today Magazine

•  Named the Second Most Influential in Accounting by Accounting Today Magazine 2015

•  Linked-In Top 150 Influencer •  Top 25 Influencers in Learning & HR by HR

Examiner •  Top 25 Thought Leaders in Public Accounting

by CPA Practice Adviser •  Working on Learning Management with

AICPA/CPA2Biz, Cloud Curriculum, Performance Management

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