Sublime

Rather than relying on individual talents, the firm would need to create more of an institutional reputation, based not only on the “raw” talent of key individuals but on the ability of the firm to bring to bear its collective knowledge derived from past engagements.

could it be that our current worldview limits the way we think about organizations? Could we invent a more powerful, more soulful, more meaningful way to work together, if only we change our belief system?

Because of a greater requirement for team approaches in delivering services, the need to disseminate internally and organize the firm’s collective experience and knowledge, professionals in the firm would become more interdependent and there would be a greater…

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solution, of course, is to convert the past experience and expertise of the individual into the expertise of the firm by accepting the similar project, but utilizing a greater proportion of juniors on second-or third-time projects.

When we look through this filter not only at compensation, but at all the structure, practices, and culture of an organization, we find that they are not scattered randomly among the stages and colors, but cluster around a center of gravity, a stage that defines most practices of the organization. It is this center of gravity that I refer to when I