Ron Baker
American former basketball player
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Sep 6, 2026
How AI Will Kill the Billable Hour in CPA Firms | Ron Baker
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Ron BakerGUEST
that absolutely i think i think we're going to have to start imagining that we're no longer selling services to our customers it's almost like there's this medieval concept known as a pre-bend priests in the old days were paid not for what they did in other words that the church masters didn't endow the they didn't um endow the rituals You know, no priest or rabbi walks around with a price list.

Ron BakerGUEST
Oh, you want me to hear a confession? No, they don't have a price list like that.
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19:06David CristelloHOST
Can you tell me how much time the chef's putting all this together? Because I think the markup is a little high,
Episode 183 - Beyond Pricing: Drucker, Branding, and the Soul of Business - The Woodard Report Podcast
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Ron BakerGUEST
This is such a great question, Joe, because I, I probably didn't encounter Drucker until late later, like in 1984, when I started working for the big eight is when I ran into him, nobody in college taught Peter Drucker.

Ron BakerGUEST
And I started to devour everything the guy's written because he's written, I don't know, 40 or 50 books, something like that.

Ron BakerGUEST
The three biggest ones I have to say is he's the guy who coined the knowledge economy and the knowledge worker.
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Joe WoodardHOST
So you sort of, you know, a morality overlap too between Judeo-Christian heritage or just, you know, common morality that exists universally and the business principles.