The Art of Managing Professional Services: Insights from Leaders of the World's Top Firms Maureen Broderick
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall

Today, South Korea's Samsung and LG are the world's largest and fifth-largest producer of LCD TVs, respectively. These 25 bloggers are the best of the best. These new firms have even dislodged the Japanese giants as the market leader in products such as TVs and mobile phones. Selecting a leadership team is one of the most important decisions the CEO of a newly combined company will ever face. The art of managing a professional services firm is in striking the right balance of service line, industry, and geography as they relate to managing, measuring, and analyzing performance and profitability. Truth be told, I Author Maureen Broderick's insights were gleaned from in-depth interviews of more than 130 leaders. Where they can turn for advice and best practices on how to run their businesses, according to Maureen Broderick in her book The Art of Managing Professional Services: Insights from Leaders of the World's Top Firms. Historically, industry has Even if you're not convinced that it's important to be industry-focused, looking at your numbers by industry can still reveal new insights about your business particularly when analyzed by service line and geography. Broderick's tome is a veritable treasure trove of war stories from leaders of the very best run firms in the world. But in addition to having good leadership insights to impart, he also writes about psychology, the art of managing people, and process improvement. In the book “The Art of Managing Professional Services” should be on the reading list of any public relations firm owner or executive, as well as anyone who aspires to one day lead an Edelman, Makovsky or Golin Harris.