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Bill Sheridan, CAEMaryland Association of CPAsBusiness Learning Institute

Today’s agenda

Why?

What?

How?

Why?

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Top five issues impacting CPAs

1. Keeping up2. Information overload3. Doing more with less4. Being proactive vs. reactive5. Complexity

What?

L>C

“Thinking about information overload isn’t accurately describing the problem. Thinking about filter failure is.”

Clay ShirkyNew York University

new media professor, writer, and consultant

The age of adaptation“The need to constantly adapt is the new reality for many workers.”

Serial mastery

These workers “are often left to figure out for themselves what new skills will make them more valuable, or just keep them from obsolescence.”

How?

Personal knowledge network The people

and resources from whom you learn.

Personal knowledge networks: 3 keys1. Follow the right

people.

2. Use the right tools.

3. Know when to pull the plug.

1.Follow the right people

Follow smart people.

Ask yourself: Who are they following?

2. Use the right tools

To organize.

To filter.

To curate.

Delivers your news to one convenient location.

Integration with Evernote, Pocket

“Leadersare readers.”

-- Tom Peters

3. Know whento pull the plug.

Sleep.

Move.

Meditate.

“Everything that happens in our lives – every misfortune, every slight, every loss, every joy, every surprise, every happy accident – is a teacher, and life is a giant classroom.”

-- Arianna Huffington

Questions?

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Personal Knowledge Networks