Author: Jamie L. Smith, CPA

Jamie L. Smith, CPA https://connectionattheintersection.wordpress.com I am a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA). I am a Finance Leader, Business Advisor & Connector. I am also a wife and a mother of two amazing sons. I am a founder of Amplify Advisors Inc. We are an entrepreneural organization that helps growing business envisage their complete financial picture. We provide CFO/Controller services with our Finance Leaders. We provide consulting services as Business Advisors. We connect by placing candidates in accounting & finance roles as well as through referrals within our network.
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Intensity = immensity

Had a lovely and intense day yesterday – I was secret reader to my son’s Kindergarten class, I stopped in at an alumni event and saw many great faces & had a few great chats. I rushed out of that early for a Board meeting & in between all of this I got some good work done!

Promised to share intensity quotes this week so here’s another from my collection. (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6415175043093012480)

#intensity #pwcalumni

and a bonus one!

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Intensity

The other day a leading partner at Deloitte was asked about attributes that have made him (& fellow leaders) successful. The answer was great (ask me for the details!) but the one that stood out to me:

Intensity

I have an intense number of intensity quotes in my “quotes to live by” iCloud album (that holds nearly 300 favourites). Only one topic likely shows up more. I’m going to share a few on intensity this week! Here is the first.

#intensity #leadership #wineshowsupmore

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Arguments that harvest results

The balance of finding people who share your values, that you have fun with but yet still challenge and inspire you is not an easy one.

Be it at work where you seek to achieve results or in your personal life where you seek to learn and grow it is key to connect & be surrounded with diversity of thought. In my opinion connection comes from radical candor – caring deeply, being transparent and forthcoming and deeply working through concepts and ideas by challenging them.

(https://www.radicalcandor.com)

“To get to this transformative place, we need to not only become comfortable with the sort of conflict that differences might provoke — we need to seek it out, too.”

This article discusses this from a strategic business perspective. This quote is one you’ve seen from me before and you will see again.

#connection #collaboration #epicteam #wrapitupwithkaraoke

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Why-Teams-Should-Argue?utm_campaign=PostBeyond&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_term=%23122212https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Why-Teams-Should-Argue?utm_campaign=PostBeyond&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_term=%23122212