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Book Chapter Summaries

Book

  • First Among Equals
  • Practice What You Preach
  • The Trusted Advisor
  • True Professionalism
  • Managing the Professional Service Firm

Surviving The People Crisis

Chapter 18

How does firm management change as the supply of young professionals changes? Developing people is like refining ore and mining for gold. How much time, cost and effort do you invest in refining ore when gold is cheap? How does that change when the gold is expensive? This was one of the first articles to identify and discuss the "war for talent."