The Way of the True Leader Ft. Bill Reeb

About this episode

Bill Reeb discusses the misconceptions surrounding the talent pipeline crisis in professional services and the self-inflicted nature of work-life balance issues.

We sit down with Bill Reeb, co-founder of Succession Institute and former AICPA Chair, for a conversation that challenges some of the most common assumptions in professional services. Bill makes a bold case that the so-called talent pipeline crisis is largely a myth — the real issues are firms refusing to go global, failing to push work down to lower levels, and holding on to bad clients. The discussion dives deep into why work-life balance problems are almost always self-inflicted, how over-...

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Host: Ben Towne

Guest: Bill Reeb

Topics covered

• leadership
• professional services
• talent pipeline
• work-life balance
• global business

Keywords

• leadership
• talent pipeline
• work-life balance
• professional services
• global business

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Succession Institute, AICPA

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