There's a ton of self help and leadership books out there to help people in their careers. If there was one that was written front the lense of a public accounting, would you read it?

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How To Squeeze More Work Out Of Your Employees For Lesser Pay - co-written by Big 4 gang.

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I would if I could bill it

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Depends on who wrote it. If it was run of the mill line partner probably not, I'm not interested in reading about anecdotes from some random person based on their personal experience. But I might consider it if it was a well researched book from a service line leader or similar written in conjunction with an expert on productivity, management, etc.

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Fishbowl and r/accounting have been pretty instrumental for my career so far, but I guess a book can be nice

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Like how to manage a team/be a good leader in public accounting? I probably wouldn’t read it as it is too niche to PA and would want something more broad that I can carry with me. That being said I’m sure there are people that would read it ( partners)

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