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Practice What You Preach What Managers Must Do to Create a High Achievement Culture

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ISBN-10: 0743223209

ISBN-13: 9780743223201

Edition: 2003

Authors: David H. Maister

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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 7/2/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638

David H. Maister, one of the world's leading authorities on the management of professional service firms, is the author of several successful books, including Managing the Professional Service Firm, True Professionalism, and Practice What You Preach, and coauthor of The Trusted Advisor.

Introduction
How to Use This Book
The Survey, Financial performance and employee attitude questions
Tramster: A Case Study, Trust, respect and integrity
How Successful Offices Did It, Enthusiastic, committed and dedicated people
Northport: A Case Study, The right combination of fun and discipline
Correlations with Financial Performance, An uncompromising determination to achieve excellence
Mustang Communications: A Case Study, Build your people and the rest will come
The Predictive package, Nine attitudes that predict profits
Archipelago: A Case Study, The best management is one-on-one
The Path to Performance, The factors that cause financial performance
Tigrette: A Case Study, Talent doesn't outweigh personality
Firm or Office? What's Driving Things? The individual manager is disproportionately influential
Mortimer Ransford: A Case Study, The Culture Cop: non-negotiable cultural minimums
The Effects of Office Size, Size makes things harder
Bellerephon: A Case Study, You've met Alice, haven't you? Essential human qualities
Age Levels, Your younger staff's views predict profits best!
Arkwright, Sutton: A Case Study, It's about relationships, stupid! Walk the halls!
Additional comparisons, Geography, lines of business and leverage
McLeary Advertising: A Case Study, Don't go home if someone else needs help
Julie's Perspective, Don't be afraid to live your values
Lessons: The Manager, What managers must be, believe and do
Lessons: Creating the Success Culture, Intolerance, requirements and community
Lessons: Developing People, Creating an energizing workplace
Lessons: Other Topics, Hiring, Training, Rewards and Clients
It's Not One or the Other, It's Both! People development IS business development
The Courage to Manage, Strategy versus expediency. Do what you say you'll do
The Financial Performance Index
The 74 Questions
The Factors
Impact of Improving on Each Question
How the Top 20 Percent Offices Did It
Correlations
A Note on Structural Equation Modeling
References
Acknowledgments
Index