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Thursday, November 11, 2004Professional Service Firm Excellence -Part 1Tom Peters has published an outline of ideas that need to be embraced by professional service firms and consultants working within. Tom Peters has come up with a simplified list of 25+ themes along three dimensions that professional firms and consultants need to embrace/master. Tom's brief presentation slides on this topic is available here.Excerpts: Work & Legacy 1. Crystal Clear Point of View (Every Practice Group: "If you can't explain your position in eight words or less, then you don't have a position"—Seth Godin) 2. DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE ("We are the only ones who do what we do"—Jerry Garcia) 3. Stretch Is Routine ("Never bite off less than you can chew"—anon.) 4. Eye-Appetite for Game-changer Projects (Excellence at Assembling "Best Team"—Fast) 5. "Playful" Clients (Adventurous folks who unfailingly Aim to Change the World) 6. Small "Uneconomic" Clients with Big Aims 7. Life Is Too Short to Work with Jerks (Fire lousy clients) 8. Obsessed with LEGACY (Practice Group and Individual: "Dent the Universe"—Steve Jobs) 9. Fire-on-the-spot Anyone Who Says, "Law/Architecture/Consulting/I-banking/ Accounting/PR/Etc. has become a 'commodity' " 10. Consistent with #9 above ... DO NOT SHY AWAY FROM THE WORD (IDEA) "RADICAL" People & Leadership 11. TALENT FANATICS ("Best-Coolest place to work") (PERIOD) 12. Eye for the Peculiar (Hiring: Go beyond "same old, same old") 13. Early Opportunities (vs. "Wait your turn") 14. Up or Out (Based on "Legacy"/Mentoring as much as "Billings"/"Rainmaking") 15. Slide the Old Aside/Make Room for Youth (Find oldsters new roles?) 16. Talent Is Obsessed with Renewal from Day #1 to Day #"R" [R = Retirement] 17. Office/Practice Leaders Evaluated Primarily on Mentoring-Team Building Skills 18. Team Leadership Skills Valued Early 19. Partner with B.I.W. [Best In World] Outsiders as Needed and to Infuse Different Views The Firm & The Brand 20. EAT-SLEEP-BREATHE-OOZE INTEGRITY ("My life is my message"—Gandhi) 21. Excellence+ in EXECUTION ... 100.00% of the Time (No such thing as a "small sins"/World Series Ring to the Batboy!) 22. "Drop everything"/"Swarm" to Support a Harried-On The Verge Team 23. SPEND AS AGGRESSIVELY ON R&D AS A TECH FIRM OR CIRQUE DU SOLEIL 24. Web (Technology) Obsession 25. BRAND/"Lovemark" Maniacs (Organize Around a Point of View Worth BROADCASTING: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world"—Gandhi) 26. PASSION! ENTHUSIASM! (Passion & Enthusiasm have as much a place at the Head Table in a "PSF" as in a widgets factory: "You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe"—Jack Welch.) (Part II shall follow) | |
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