CPA Trendlines Podcasts · 11/10/2026 · 52 min
Matt Rampe: Your Team Has a Strategy, But Do You Have Momentum? | The Disruptors
Transcript (16 segments)
Matt Rampe
And so we have all these changes happening at once and nobody taught us how to do change well.
Matt Rampe
I think on top of that, the changes we're being asked to make in our firms are much more complicated than in the past.
Matt Rampe
Like that's great. Let's go, let's go build CAS. But when the question is, who's going to build CAS? Who's going to manage that department? Who's going to staff that department? Where is the long-term leadership going to come from? That often is a question mark and people are saying, well, I'm pretty busy, or that's not really my sweet spot.
Matt Rampe
We just or lack of shared urgency.
Matt Rampe
And that not only means specific, like what is the outcome we're trying to create.
Matt Rampe
Everybody wants to say, that's a terrible way to run multiple changes quickly.
Matt Rampe
but to me, the sweet spot of corporate governance is empowering leadership to make choices.
Matt Rampe
It's and I think it was Amazon who said, disagree and commit.
Matt Rampe
he has a framework of these eight different things, so create urgency, build a guiding coalition.
Matt Rampe
I was talking with a group of managing partners yesterday.
Matt Rampe
Maybe you make a 90-day sprint towards a goal that's not just not just like moving towards the vision of that change.
Matt Rampe
I think they had one key above all of this is leadership.
Matt Rampe
I think some of the pros of moving into the more corporate governance style is, clarity.
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And it's not true.
Matt Rampe
Survival survival versus thriving, survive versus thrive.
Matt Rampe
Pick one thing.