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The Trusted Advisor (Paperback, 20th Anniversary Edition): David H. Maister, Robert Galford, Charles Green The Trusted Advisor (Paperback, 20th Anniversary Edition)
David H. Maister, Robert Galford, Charles Green
R508 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R121 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The 20th anniversary edition of the “brilliant and practical” (Tom Peters, author of The Professional Service 50) business classic—now updated to reflect the digital world—provides essential tools and wisdom for all consultants, negotiators, and advisors.

In today’s fast-paced networked economy, professionals must work harder than ever to maintain and improve their business skills and knowledge. But technical mastery of one’s discipline is not enough, assert professional advisors David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, and Robert M. Galford. The key to professional success, they argue, is the ability to earn the trust and confidence of clients.

In this 20th anniversary edition, Maister, Green, and Galford enrich our understanding of today’s society and illustrate how to be effective communicators in a digital world. Using their model of “the trust equation” they dissect the rational and emotional components of trustworthiness. With precision and clarity, they detail five distinct steps you must take to create a trust-based relationship. Each step—engage, listen, frame, envision, and commit—is richly described in distinct chapters.

This immensely accessible book offers “an invaluable road map to all those who seek to develop truly special relationships with their clients” (Carl Stern, CEO, Boston Consulting Group). The authors weave together anecdotes, experience, and examples of both their own and others’ successes and mistakes to great effect. The Trusted Advisor is essential reading for anyone who must advise, negotiate, or manage complex relationships with others.

The Trusted Advisor (Paperback, New Ed): David H. Maister, Robert Galford, Charles Green The Trusted Advisor (Paperback, New Ed)
David H. Maister, Robert Galford, Charles Green
R505 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Save R177 (35%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a guide to professional success. In the modern world of business, it's all about the ability to earn the client's trust and thereby win the ability to influence them. In these high risk times, trust is more valuable then gold. This detailed resource book provides readers with the five crucial steps they need for developing, managing and improving client confidence.

True Professionalism (Paperback, 1st Touchstone Ed): David H. Maister True Professionalism (Paperback, 1st Touchstone Ed)
David H. Maister
R435 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R72 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Professional firms are forever trying to get their people to act like professionals -- to do the right things. Though their various incentives may create employee compliance, these don't often encourage excellence. David Maister, the world's premier consultant to professional service firms, vigorously challenges professionals to examine this essential, yet under-addressed question: What is true professionalism? His answer is clear: It is believing passionately in what you do, never compromising your standards and values, and caring about your clients, your people and your own career. In clear and compelling terms, Maister shows that this approach is not only ethical but also conducive to commercial success.

First Among Equals - How to Manage a Group of Professionals (Paperback): Patrick J McKenna, David H. Maister First Among Equals - How to Manage a Group of Professionals (Paperback)
Patrick J McKenna, David H. Maister
R474 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Whether you have recently been appointed as a group leader or are a battle-scarred veteran, you know that managing professional people is difficult! In this unique handbook, Patrick J. McKenna and David H. Maister argue that leaders will best enable their people to achieve peak performance not by managing them, not by leading them, but by inspiring them. The authors show you how to actually add value as a group leader or induce people to accept your guidance, even with intelligent professionals who are often free-agents accustomed to having automony to work on grueling assignments with little supervision. They also give advice on how to handle those oh-so-talented but oh-so-annoying professionals who exhibit attitude problems or are just exceedingly difficult to work with, when you need them but they tend to needle you.

The lessons and learnings presented here will give you insights and action tips to help you provoke and inspire your people to their full potential.

Managing the Professional Service Firm (Paperback, New edition): David H. Maister Managing the Professional Service Firm (Paperback, New edition)
David H. Maister
R741 R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Save R120 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For the first time in paperback, international expert and consultant David Maister offers a brilliant and accessible guide to every management issue at play in professional firms.

Professional firms differ from other business enterprises in two distinct ways: first, they provide highly customized services and thus cannot apply many of the management principles developed for product-based industries. Second, professional services are highly personalized, involving the skills of individuals. Such firms must therefore compete not only for clients but also for talented professionals.

Drawing on more than ten years of research and consulting to these unique and creative companies, David Maister explores issues ranging from marketing and business development to multinational strategies, human resources policies to profit improvement, strategic planning to effective leadership. While these issues can be complex. Maister simplifies them by recognizing that "every professional service firm in the world, regardless of size, specific profession, or country of operation, has the same mission statement: outstanding service to clients, satisfying careers for its people, and financial success for its owners."

Managing The Professional Service Firm (Paperback, New Ed): David H. Maister Managing The Professional Service Firm (Paperback, New Ed)
David H. Maister 2
R508 R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Save R206 (41%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Professional service firms differ from other business enterprises in two distinct ways: first they provide highly customised services thus cannot apply many of the management principles developed for product-based industries. Second, professional services are highly personalised, involving the skills of individuals. Such firms must therefore compete not only for clients but also for talented professionals. Drawing on more than ten years of research and consulting to these unique and creative companies, David Maister explores issues ranging from marketing and business development to multinational strategies, human resources policies to profit improvement, strategic planning to effective leadership. While these issues can be complex, Maister simplifies them by recognising that 'every professional service firm in the world, regardless of size, specific profession, or country of operation, has the same mission statement: outstanding service to clients, satisfying careers for its people and financial success for its owners.'

Strategy and the Fat Smoker - Doing What's Obvious But Not Easy (Hardcover): David H. Maister Strategy and the Fat Smoker - Doing What's Obvious But Not Easy (Hardcover)
David H. Maister
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We often (or even usually) know what we should be doing in both personal and professional life. We also know why we should be doing it and (often) how to do it. Figuring all that out is not too difficult. What is very hard is actually doing what you know to be good for you in the long-run, in spite of short-run temptations. The same is true for organizations. What is noteworthy is how similar (if not identical) most firms' strategies really are: provide outstanding client service, act like team players, provide a good place to work, invest in your future. No sensible firm (or person) would enunciate a strategy that advocated anything else. However, just because something is obvious does not make it easy. Real strategy lies not in figuring out what to do, but in devising ways to ensure that, compared to others, we actually do more of what everybody knows they should do. This simple insight, if accepted, has profound implications for
How organizations should think about strategy How they should think about clients, marketing and selling and How they should think about management.
In 18 chapters, Maister explores the fat smoker syndrome and how individuals, managers and organizations can overcome the temptations of the short-term and actually do what they already know is good for them.

Practice What You Preach - What Managers Must Do to Create a High Achievement Culture (Paperback, 1st Free Press pbk. ed):... Practice What You Preach - What Managers Must Do to Create a High Achievement Culture (Paperback, 1st Free Press pbk. ed)
David H. Maister
R484 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R52 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Are employee attitudes correlated with financial success? Unequivocally yes! according to consultant and bestselling author David H. Maister. Based on a worldwide survey of 139 offices in 29 professional service firms in numerous lines of business, Maister proves that companies perceived by their employees to practice what they preach in matters of client commitment, teamwork, high standards, and employee development are more successful than their competitors. Put simply, employee dedication causes improved financial performance.

Through in-depth interviews, Maister explores the crucial role of the individual manager in promoting high morale among employees. Practice What You Preach boasts specific action recommendations from the managers of these "superstar" businesses on how to build an energized workplace, enforce standards of excellence, develop people, and have fun -- all in the name of profit. As a result, Practice What You Preach can help any manager increase profitability, and provides proof that great financial rewards come from living up to the standards that most businesses advocate, but few achieve.

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