Practice management is often misunderstood. The Advisor Playbook will take the mystery away.Practice management is confused with marketing, or is limited to strategizing about branding, or simply equated to old-school salesmanship.Practice management is how you build an organized toolbox of all your processes – branding, marketing, service activities, core functions – and constantly tune and keep that toolbox efficient and effortless. It's a network of interrelated skills, ...

The Blue Square MethodThe Mindset and Best-Practices of Top Fee-For-Service ProfessionalsThe Blue Square Method is a philosophy and process for the enlightened fee-for-service professional who is striving to grow on their own terms. Panoramic success requires continual refinement and optimization both personally and professionally. This actionable playbook is designed to put you on a predictable trajectory and ensure you never plateau.About the Authors:Duncan ...

The Advisor Playbook: Regain liberation and order in your personal and professional lifePractice management is often misunderstood. The Advisor Playbook will take the mystery away.Practice management is confused with marketing, or is limited to strategizing about branding, or simply equated to old-school salesmanship.Practice management is how you build an organized toolbox of all your processes – branding, marketing, service activities, core functions – and constan...

The Blue Square Method is a philosophy and process for the enlightened fee-for-service professional who is striving to grow on their own terms. Panoramic success requires continual refinement and optimization both personally and professionally. This actionable playbook is designed to put you on a predictable trajectory and ensure you never plateau.

The Blue Square Method is a philosophy and process for the enlightened fee-for-service professional who is striving to grow on their own terms. Panoramic success requires continual refinement and optimization both personally and professionally. This actionable playbook is designed to put you on a predictable trajectory and ensure you never plateau.

What does it take to be the leader of a design firm or group? We often assume they have all the answers, but in this rapidly evolving industry they’re forced to find their way like the rest of us. So how do good design leaders manage? If you lead a design group, or want to understand the people who do, this insightful book explores behind-the-scenes strategies and tactics from leaders of top design companies throughout North America.Based on scores of interviews he conducted over a...

The way we work is changing in the Internet age. The new majority of the workforce, women, Generation Y, the over-50s, as well as growing numbers of men share a need for greater control and choice about where, how and when they work. This is a guide to the skills you will need and the challenges you will face in the 21st century world of work.

Socrates used facilitative methods in teaching philosophy, and for good reason: They work!Fast forward to today, and managers, supervisors, consultants, trainers, and others are learning to use facilitative techniques to improve performance in the workplace and other areas that demand results.The authors of this series, led by an expert with twenty-five years of experience as a professional facilitator, provide a complete model of group facilitation in Process-Based Facilit...

A guide to leading with your best self, which in turn drives others to be their best.NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDJust as the Wright Brothers combined science and practice to finally realize the dream of flight, Ryan and Robert Quinn combine research and personal experience to demonstrate how to reach a psychological state that lifts us and those around us to greater heights of achievement, integrity, openness, and empathy. The updated edition of this awa...

Organizational or corporate ‘culture’ is the most overused and least understood word in business, if not society. While the topic has been an object of keen academic interest for nearly half a century, theorists and practitioners still struggle with the most basic questions: What is organizational culture? Can it be measured? Is it a dependent or independent variable? Is it causal in organizational performance, and, if so, how? Paradoxically, managers and practitioners ascribe cul...

China’s growth miracle over the past 30 years has propelled it to become the world’s second largest economy and potentially the largest in the following years. This book examines China’s experience on economic reform, trying to find the reasons for the sustainable and rapid development and provide insights into the study of economic theories.From the perspective of political economics, this book elaborates on China’s socialist market economy which was officially confirmed as the go...

The book addresses managerial attitudes regarding globalization and international business, often referred to as a global mindset. A global mindset is not enabling managers to be most effective in all situations. Alongside the structure and culture of their working environment, this leads to consequences for both managers and their organization.