by David H. Maister (Author), Patrick J. McKenna (Author)
Managing people over whom you have no real power is a challenge, particularly in professional service firms where, increasingly, top professionals are being tapped to lead their peers. In this guide, two renowned consultants show professional group managers lacking formal authority how to lead colleagues to peak performance. They speak directly to those who have gone from focusing on their own performance to being a group manager in charge of leading others. From understanding the group leader role to setting terms of reference and effectively dealing with talented prima donnas, McKenna and Maister present a thorough introduction to managing and orchestrating talent.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 07 May 2002
ISBN 10: 0743225511
ISBN 13: 9780743225519
co-author of A Passion for Excellence
First Among Equals delivers for newcomers and old pros alike. McKenna and Maister -- polished professionals both -- know how to work with enormously talented people, and they write with the kind of reassurance and calm confidence a professional group leader craves. The book's hands-on checklists are flat-out superb.
author of Total Access, Real Time, and Relationship Marketing
This book is a unique combination of good business, understanding of people, and applied wisdom.
author of The Leadership Solution
This book is truly a fire hose of practical, proven, workable advice and counsel that is intimately sensitive to the very special demands of professionals. It may well become the most dog-eared book in every firm -- and with good reason.
author of Focal Point, Success Is a Journey, and Maximum Achievement
This is a fast-moving, practical book, full of proven strategies and techniques that you can use immediately to manage a professional group more effectively. These methods will help you get better results, faster, with your colleagues than you ever imagined.
author of Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships: The Future of Professional Services
This book is invaluable. McKenna and Maister have honed in with laser precision on a desperately important yet vastly under-addressed topic, to provide eminently practical advice and prescriptions for every leader of professional workers.
co-author of The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart and Chairman Emeritus, tompeters!company
McKenna and Maister turn the often elusive and obscure concept of leadership into something tangible and accessible. With rich detail and straight talk they offer practical lessons, usable tools, and case examples from the real world. This is advice and counsel you can trust, and every manager of professionals (no, every manager in any setting) should take it to heart.