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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

The Importance of Mindsets

Chapter 6

What attitudes must you have to be effective? Being a trusted advisor is as much as anything about attitudes: focus on the other person; have the self-confidence and ego strength to hold back; showing curiosity and recognizing the professionalism in others.