Sublime

successful firms I know, all of the individual partners act as if they have personal strategic plans for their own careers—they have each thought through what their special value on the marketplace will be, what will make them more than just one more practitioner in their specialty, how they plan to achieve this vision of personal career progress.

As a rule of thumb, go for 60–70% CEPs and 30–40% of baseline category competencies and any other attributes.

In expertise practice areas, business development tends to be a personal responsibility of each partner (or partner equivalent).

Most people shift between a steep growth trajectory and a gradual growth trajectory in different phases of their lives and careers, so it’s important not to put a permanent label on people.