Leading Professionals Empson Laura Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms and Director of the Centre for Professional Service Firms Cass Business School London
Leading Professionals Empson Laura Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms and Director of the Centre for Professional Service Firms Cass Business School London Professional…
Specifikacia Leading Professionals Empson Laura Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms and Director of the Centre for Professional Service Firms Cass Business School London
Leading Professionals Empson Laura Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms and Director of the Centre for Professional Service Firms Cass Business School London
Professional organizations--such as accounting and consulting firms, law firms, and investment banks--are fundamental to the functioning of the global economy. This book uncovers the complex, messy, and surprisingly emotional challenges of leading professional organizations--revealing the realities that lies beneath the 'professional' surface which these organizations present to the outside world.Individual professionals--highly educated, highly intelligent, and highly opinionated--are generally reluctant to see themselves as followers and may be equally reluctant to put themselves forward as leaders. Yet many of the most powerful are notoriously private.
How does a professional come to be seen as a leader within a professional organization? They value their autonomy and confer authority on their leaders on a highly contingent basis. How do leaders maintain their position once they