Deloitte global chief puts Age in its place…
We were thrilled last week to get a letter from James H
Quigley, the global CEO of Deloitte, after an Age hack suggested that the Big
Four are pretty indistinguishable. ‘What differentiates Deloitte cannot be
found on a website or in branded materials. In one word, it is people,’ Quigley
wrote. Difficult, um, for the rest of us to get much sense of that, though, isn’t
it? After all, E&Y is always telling us that it is putting ‘People First’
(TM). In fact, it’s hard to chat to any senior Big Four figure without being
wittered on to about how important the ‘people’ are. While TS is being
curmudgeonly, can we also ask: isn’t the term ‘people’ just another word for ‘staff’?
The word ‘staff’ might imply of course that the individuals are just grunts,
employed by an uncaring capitalist behemoth. It might imply a subservient
relationship.
More about:
In the past decade, the professional services industry has transformed significantly. Digital disruptions, increased competition, and changing market ...
View resourceIn recent months, professional services firms are facing more pressure than ever to deliver value to clients. Often, clients look at the firms own inf...
View resourceIn a world of instant results and automated workloads, the potential for AP to drive insights and transform results is enormous. But, if you’re still ...
View resourceThe first phase of Making Tax Digital (MTD) saw the requirement for the digital submission of the VAT Return using compliant software. That’s now behi...
View resourceColin reacts to accountants considering the swap from practice to commerce - is the grass greener? Read More...
View articleColin reacts to the US Presidential election result, and the feeling of the UK profession Read More...
View articleBen Affleck shoots punches and bean-counts in the first trailer of his upcoming accountant action flick Read More...
View articleAccountants must be flavour of the month in Hollywood as Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Kevin Hart get in on the act Read More...
View articleWhen Colin heard HMRC's next CEO was an MOD man, he could only think one thing... Read More...
View articleFill in this spoof application form to see if you can become the next CEO of HMRC Read More...
View articleFrom what TS can deduce, Ben Affleck has been spending a bit too much time Read More...
View articleColin muses on the view taken by certain corporates on Lin Homer's departure from HMRC Read More...
View article