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Teal Organizations reverse the premise: people are not made to fit pre-defined jobs; their job emerges from a multitude of roles and responsibilities they pick up based on their interests, talents, and the needs of the organization.

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.

key elements of this type of professional service are creativity, innovation, and the pioneering of new approaches, concepts or techniques: in…

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many practice groups continue to maintain expertise-based approaches to running their affairs when their marketplace is probably closer to the efficiency stage.

The biggest change in regard to training is, of course, that employees are in charge of their own learning; there is no HR function that defines training programs and determines who can attend what training programs or at what point.

Profits also come, in large part, from the firm’s ability, through its project team structure, to leverage the professional skills of the seniors with the efforts of juniors.

Rather than inspirational leadership styles, efficiency based practices would need managers who are disciplined,…

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The team philosophy at McKinsey, one senior partner explained to me, is illustrated by its approach to project work: “As a young individual consultant, you learn that your job is to hold your own: You can rest assured that the team will win. All you’ve got to do is do your part.”