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John Spence • Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action
Can we become better than our competition at accumulating, disseminating, and building on our firmwide expertise and experience, so that each professional becomes more valuable in the marketplace by being empowered with a greater breadth and depth of experience?
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
to create alignment and successful business growth, it is important to focus on behaviors.
Edward Hess • Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses
If you are going to do good—for educational systems, public works, breast cancer, or shareholders—you are going to need to be in power. Otherwise, you won’t be able to accomplish as much. The lesson: place your own objectives in a broader context that compels others to support you.
Jeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
Locate the decision maker.
G. Richard Shell • Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
Guide to Management: Lasting Lessons from the Best Leadership Minds of Our Time, p. 82.
Paul Roetzer • The Marketing Agency Blueprint
The art of management lies in the capacity to select from the many activities of seemingly comparable significance the one or two or three that provide leverage well beyond the others and concentrate on them.
Andrew S. Grove • High Output Management
describe the qualities of a leader they’ve especially admired or viewed as a role model or a mentor. Think
Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy • The Way We're Working Isn't Working
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