When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance

Thomas J. DeLong,John J. Gabarro,Robert J. Lees

When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Country
United States
Published
1 December 2007
Pages
256
ISBN
9781422117378

When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance

Thomas J. DeLong,John J. Gabarro,Robert J. Lees

For too long, professional services firms have relied on the producer-manager model, which works well in uncomplicated business environments. However, today’s managing directors must balance often conflicting roles, more demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations of partners at all levels. When Professionals Have to Lead presents an overarching framework better suited to such complexity. It identifies the four critical activities for effective PSF leadership: setting strategic direction, securing commitment to this direction, facilitating execution, and setting a personal example. Through examples from consulting practices, accounting firms, investment banks, and other professional service organizations, industry veterans DeLong, Gabarro, and Lees show how this model works to: * Align your firm’s culture and key organizational components. * Satisfy your clients’ needs without sacrificing essential managerial responsibilities. * Address matters of size, scale, and complexity while maintaining the qualities that make professional services firms unique. A valuable new resource, this book redefines the role of leadership in professional services firms.

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