{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Accounting Answers Podcast","title":"How Accountants Can Be More Productive by Working Less","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1129,"description":"It's the \"Best Practice in Accounting\" show, every Thursday to 150 countries and 30,000 accounting practitioners, fintech specialists and influencers in the accountancy, CPA and bookkeeping space. \n\nIn today's episode 20, \"How Accountants Can Be More Productive by Working Less\" with special guest Carl Reader, founder of dandt accountants and bestselling author of BOSS IT. https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlreader\n\nYou can also watch this on youtube here: https://youtu.be/zZfzY20IAUg\n\nThanks to our newest sponsor of this show ProNation, the accounting community you wished you'd found sooner. To find out why three heads are better than one, go to https://jointhenation.co.uk/\n\nKey takeaways from this episode include:\n\n✶ one of the core problems that limits all people in all jobs, especially accounting and fintech\n\n✶ why working harder is not necessarily better for accountancy professionals\n\n✶ the other important aspects of being a working professional aside from the billable hours\n\n✶ the five different kinds of work that accountants engage in, and which take up the most time\n\n✶ the importance of ideation, innovation and inspiration for technically smart professionals and entrepreneurs\n\n✶ why a $1000 moment is better than a $200 hour for any business professional\n\n✶ what more time spent on ideation can do for accounting practices in driving growth and innovation\n\n✶ the problems in productivity caused by slavery to your email inbox and instant messages\n\n✶ how to avoid falling into the pandemic culture of longer virtual meetings\n\n✶ how accountants can engage in more creative ideation for problem solving and being more productive\n\n✶ Book recommendation - \"Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork\" by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy \n\nSource for today's piece: https://www.fastcompany.com/90739838/you-just-might-be-more-productive-if-you-work-less\n\n◣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━◢\n\n5 great shows in the Accounting Influencers Podcast Network:\n\n❶...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/XrZ2P9El52IADik8EmdA3U-oiL4JYr7f9qNn_P6r04A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wODA3/M2I3NzQ0ODkzNThm/YjdmZDRlYWU3N2I2/MDRkMS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}