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T his year’s Zweig Group award winners – Best Firms to Work For and Hot Firms – have been announced. As the awards manager, I’m on the front lines, so I see a lot of the things these successful firms are doing. Having gone through the grading process this year, I can say without a doubt that the trend lines are impressive. This year’s group of Best and Hot Firms provides a treasure trove of information across thousands of data points, from employees up to the C-suite.
a select group of professionals who have been told they are being groomed for future leadership positions. Seventy-two percent of firms said they share their working strategic business plan with “The Best Firm survey is our largest source of data that we collect about the industry. This year, we received more than 13,000 responses totaling more than 1.6 million data points from employees and the C-suite. The results are telling.”
Kyle Ahern GUEST SPEAKER
The Best Firm survey is our largest source of data that we collect about the industry. This year, we received more than 13,000 responses totaling more than 1.6 million data points from employees and the C-suite. The results are telling. S-corps continue to lead the way for ownership type, with just over 50 percent of responding firms identifying as an S-corp. That is followed by C-corps and LLCs at 22 percent and 15 percent, respectively. Ownership transition has been a hot topic across the industry, and to an extent, the Best Firm survey bears that out. Sixty-five percent of firms said they have a select group of professionals who receive leadership training, and 61 percent have
See KYLE AHERN, page 4
THE ZWEIG LETTER July 23, 2018, ISSUE 1257
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