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First Among Equals

First Among Equals
First Among Equals
How to Manage a Group of Professionals  
By Patrick J. McKenna and David H. Maister
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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.

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"This is a timely, easy-to-read work leavened with action plans and examples."

-- Harvard Business School Working Knowledge for Business Leaders

"This book makes a unique and very useful contribution to the field of leadership and management of professionals. It captures both fundamental principles that are characteristic of the better firms as well as offering dozens of practical specifics."

-- Jon R. Katzenbach, coauthor of The Wisdom of Teams and The Discipline of Teams, and author of Peak Perfomance

"First Among Equals is a treasure chest of extraordinary value. Open it up and between its covers you'll find an unparalleled source of wisdom from two highly seasoned and extraordinarily credible professionals. McKenna and Maister turn the often elusive and obscure concept of leadership into something tangible and accessible. With rich detail and straight talk, they offer practical lessons, usable tools, and case examples from the real world. This is advice and counsel you can trust, and every manager of professionals (no, every manager in any setting) should take it to heart."

-- Jim Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart

Jim Shafferauthor of The Leadership SolutionThis book is truly a fire hose of practical, proven, workable advice and counsel that is intimately sensitive to the very special demands of professionals. It may well become the most dog-eared book in every firm
-- and with good reason.
Nancy K. Austinco-author of A Passion for ExcellenceFirst Among Equals delivers for newcomers and old pros alike. McKenna and Maister -- polished professionals both
-- know how to work with enormously talented people, and they write with the kind of reassurance and calm confidence a professional group leader craves. The book's hands-on checklists are flat-out superb.
Brian Tracyauthor of Focal Point, Success Is a Journey, and Maximum AchievementThis is a fast-moving, practical book, full of proven strategies and techniques that you can use immediately to manage a professional group more effectively. These methods will help you get better results, faster, with your colleagues than you ever imagined.
Ross Dawsonauthor of Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships: The Future of Professional ServicesThis book is invaluable. McKenna and Maister have honed in with laser precision on a desperately important yet vastly under-addressed topic, to provide eminently practical advice and prescriptions for every leader of professional workers.
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