128 Chat with a Guided Profession Transformer (GPT) (feat. Ed Kless)

Episode 128 | Recorded March 1, 2023

Introduction:

• In this episode of Accounting High, host Scott interviews Ed Kless, a meta-consultant and business iconoclast. Together, they explore the art of asking effective questions, the value of strengths and weaknesses, and the importance of breaking the rules. Ed shares his insights on connecting music to superabundance and the accounting business, confronting our freedom, and confronting the challenges of the profession, including the cancerous timesheet. This thought-provoking episode challenges listeners to think differently about their work and the industry as a whole.

Interview:

• what makes a good question?

• Bringing gifts and identifying strengths and weaknesses

• Ed shares how he met Ron Baker and how they became friends.

• The importance of reading and becoming a Guide

• Ed shares his love for musical theater and raps You Got Trouble.

• The connection between music, super abundance, and the accounting profession

• Breaking rules and The Chesterton Fence

• The negative impact of timesheets on the accounting profession, alternative value-based pricing methods

• The importance of managing the work, not the people

• The value of questioning the present and confronting our freedom