@Going Concern “The Big 4 and Shameless Self-Promotion”

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My new post is up @Going Concern.

“I chafe at the cheekiness of some of the announcements. The firms’ communications teams are blithely unaware of how such shameless self-promotion looks to those who are watching closely. For example, all of the Big 4 firms were named to the Fortune 100 Best Places To Work list, even though it’s been well documented that they’ve cut thousands, under cover of “bad” performance and “no fit,” with no press releases, minimal communication to clients, and sometimes not a word to the client engagement partners.”

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