 Lessons I’ve Learned is an ongoing series of podcasts by business author and management consultant David Maister. Maister is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on the management of professional service firms. He has published five books, including the canonical management textbook, Managing The Professional Services Firm. His other books are True Professionalism, The Trusted Advisor, Practice What You Preach, and First Among Equals. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. This series of podcasts explores how to better build your business through marketing, client services, client relations, and selling. New episodes will be added on a weekly basis.Primary Format :
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Selecting A Leader: Do We Know What We Want? - Chapter 14
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Selecting A Leader: Do We Know What We Want?Often, the guidelines an organization sets for what it expected of its managers are unclear at best. This episode focuses on setting non-ambiguous, non-contradictory standards for selecting leaders.
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accountability: Effective Managers Go FirstOften, management neglects its own stake in the betterment of the organization as a whole. We will look into ways that managers can become accountable for their own work and improvement and serve as an example to the whole of the organization.
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Natural ManagerIn this episode we will examine the intuitive managerial approach of Jerry Labbate and clarify the lessons you can take to maximize your managerial effectiveness.
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Great Coach in ActionThe key to great coaching lies in a persons ability get another to commit to goals on their own terms. This episode looks into ensuring that those in managerial roles have the attitudes, skills, and behaviors of a skilled coach.
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Most Training is UselessToo often, companies look to training as a stand-alone solution for behavioral changes in their employees. However, training is a wonderful last step in a committed process towards a common goal, but an almost useless first step.
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tyrants, Energizers and CynicsWith so many approaches an organization can take to management, only one of these approaches will, in the long run, produce enduring profitability and abundant business generation. Why are so few firms willing to invest the time?
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doing It for the MoneyThe basis for any successful marketing effort is the ability of the provider to convince the buyer that they are truly interested in them and are genuinely trying to help. This is however, rarely the focus of marketing discussions within any firm.
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Friendship StrategyTrusting relationships in business are built on the same formulae as trusting relationships in personal life. We will look into some of the cues one can take from personal life to enhance ones professional standing.
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do You Really Want Relationships?The Fat Smoker Syndrome, the inability to do the things we know will help us accomplish our long-term goals, finds no better illustration than in the area of client relations. We will look into different types of client relations and relative merits of
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's Our Deal?For any organization to achieve a unified, forward momentum, it must first have a solid set of rules and goals for its members to agree upon. We will discuss a number of integrating concepts aimed at getting all players on the same page.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are We In This Together?Firm-wide strategy often assumes firm-wide consensus. However, it is rarely the case that all players within any given firm are team oriented. We will discuss some of the widely held player preferences and prescribe alternatives in dealing with them.
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's Not How Good You Are, But How Much You Want ItA career path is rarely a series of logical steps towards resulting in an ultimate goal, but is more often a series of experiments seen through by the drive and determination to find the next challenge. We will explore this principle in this podcast.
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strategy Means Saying NoOne of the hardest things for a professional to do is to turn down work and everyone has an excuse as to why they shouldn’t. We will learn why the refusal of work that is contrary to your strategy is essential to building a distinguished and special
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strategy and the Fat SmokerA strategy, like any other lifestyle altering decision, requires the discipline stick to the plan. In the absence of this determination, most strategic planning is a complete waste of time. We will discuss some of the tools necessary to do what is ob
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summary ProverbWe will close this series with a proverb that I use to conclude many of my seminars. It illustrates that what most businesses need, is not clarification on what is the right thing to do, but the courage to not give in to short term gratification.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earning a RelationsipEverything in we want in life must be given to us by another human being. This being the case, a key question in the early stages of a relationship is, how do you get another human being to want to give these things to you?
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DynamosProfessionals at any given time can be one of three things: dynamos, cruisers or losers. What are the percentages in your organization and how will you as a manager motivate and excite in order help under-performers and create dynamos?
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Think of WorkMarketing services that excite you to clients that you are interested in brings the odds of winning business significantly higher. However, this appears to be the route less taken in most professional lives. The question is, is this acceptable?
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Hired by New Clientssides of the fence. We will discuss how to thwart this cycle at the root by demonstrating your capabilities first and building a reputation as a trustworthy provider.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Experts vs. AdvisorsIn the marketing of professional services, you can come across in one of two ways to the buyer. You are either interested in them, or you are interested in their cash. We will show why the former is the key to successful business marketing.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marketing To Existing ClientsMost professional organizations spend the overwhelming majority of their non-billable, business generating hours on chasing new clients even though it has the least probable R.O.I. We will examine the alternatives and their relative effectiveness.
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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Romance and SincerityIn business development it is too often the case that professional strive for the transaction in the short term and neglect the essential foundations for building a lasting business relationship. We will discuss two distinct mindsets for coming to mark
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How We BuyAll marketing and selling questions boil down to one basic query: How do people buy? To learn the answer to this, one only needs to look as far as their own experience in buying to find that it’s not only about qualifications but also about trust.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What We Hate About Those PeopleOften times there is a degree of laziness in communication on the part of the professional that is incredibly alienating to the client. Learn a simple exercise that will help you better understand and fulfill your clients’ wants and needs.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Should Marketing Time Go?The standard marketing practice of proposals and assertions fails in respect to building relationships. We will discuss one of many tactics aimed at earning and deserving existing and new client business through demonstration rather than assertion.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accountability00:39 – Introduction
00:12 – Over-investing in training, under-investing in accountability
02:07 – Managerial accountability
02:59 - Standards and the goals of an organization
06:25 - Conclusion
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Managing DadCommonly used tactics in management such as performance appraisals, go against every rule of family life. In this episode, you will learn how the interpersonal, emotional, and psychological skills implemented in family interactions are the very same th
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Using Language to Get What You WantCareful attention to language and an understanding of the best way to present issues are key interpersonal skills. Listen to and learn from an example of phenomenal use of language.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Train a PigeonGetting another human being to fulfill their potential is a general process akin to the process of parenting or coaching. What are the steps to unleashing the true potential within an individual?
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Others to Give You What You WantEverything you want in life must be given to you by others. The key question in getting what you want is whether you engage with others as “them”, people you want something from, or as “us”, people who are part of a relationship with you.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Managers Should Spend Their TimeOften times, the coaching or managing role of a professional group leader is neglected in favor of revenue generation and client service. Learn the various reasons that this is a poor economic choice and ways to invest in and nurture the coaching role
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ExcitementOrganizations accomplish their missions when the people who comprise that organization are excited and passionate about their work. Learn how to create this environment in your workplace.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not Qualified to ManageThe main trait that qualifies a manager is not about intellect or rationality. The job of the manager is to build organizations that accomplish their mission through an ability to deal with people as people.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Managing WorksMotivating people to perform to their greatest potential is a multifaceted skill. Learn the traits, tactics, and dialect to be an effective manager.
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