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Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
greater sophistication of clients means that they are increasingly able to analyze their true needs in different types of engagements and distinguish between firms whose style of practice matches the specific benefit they seek.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
many practice groups continue to maintain expertise-based approaches to running their affairs when their marketplace is probably closer to the efficiency stage.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
many practice groups continue to maintain expertise-based approaches to running their affairs when their marketplace is probably closer to the efficiency stage.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
What are the characteristics of people who are most successful in your culture? When new people don’t succeed in your culture, what is the most common reason?
Michael E. Porter • HBR's 10 Must Reads 2019: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article "Now What?" by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
standardize and empower, cross-train, and operate with slack.”13
Felix Oberholzer-Gee • Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance
every aspect of a practice group’s affairs, from practice development to hiring, from economic structure to governance, will be affected by its relative positioning on this spectrum.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
The success of Netflix is founded on these types of unlikely stories: small teams consisting exclusively of significantly above-average performers—what Reed refers to as dream teams—working on big hairy problems.