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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

Firm or Office? What's Driving Things?

Chapter 11

Many of the offices in the database were part of the same larger organization, allowing us to test whether there were any firm-wide effects. Curiously, there were not. A super-energized environment seemed to be a property of local offices, not a property of multilocation firms, suggesting that the local manager was the key to making things happen.