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Aligning the Stars

How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results

By: Jay W. Lorsch,Thomas J. Tierney

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Aligning the Stars

How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results

By: Jay W. Lorsch,Thomas J. Tierney

Most businesses rely on talent to succeed, but none so much as professional service firms. Within this rapidly expanding, trillion-dollar industry, professionals--and how they're managed--are the primary source of competitive advantage. In fact, success in this sector is determined more by the people you pay than the people who pay you. This path-breaking book provides readers with a practical and integrated perspective on how to win in the unique and tumultuous world of professional services. From strategy to organization to culture, it offers customized insights for businesses in which professionals drive bottom-line results and long-term company success. Respected academic Jay W. Lorsch and accomplished practitioner Thomas J. Tierney apply their broad experience to the realities of "Monday morning" decision making. Their work reflects decades of personal experience, combined with a rigorous study of outstanding professional service firms in industries that include law, information technology, accounting, advertising, investment banking, executive search, and consulting. Aligning the Stars explains what differentiates the "best of the best" within professional services. By describing how to attract, retain, motivate, organize, and lead the stars that shape a company's destiny, this book provides valuable lessons for the current and future leaders of every talent-driven business.

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Harvard Business Review Press

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1422163180

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When Professionals Have to Lead

A New Model for High Performance

By: Thomas J. DeLong,John J. Gabarro,Robert J. Lees

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When Professionals Have to Lead

A New Model for High Performance

By: Thomas J. DeLong,John J. Gabarro,Robert J. Lees

For too long, professional services firms have relied on the “producer-manager” model, which works well in uncomplicated business environments. However, today’s managing directors must balance often conflicting roles, more demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations of partners at all levels. When Professionals Have to Lead presents an overarching framework better suited to such complexity. It identifies the four critical activities for effective PSF leadership: setting strategic direction, securing commitment to this direction, facilitating execution, and setting a personal example. Through examples from consulting practices, accounting firms, investment banks, and other professional service organizations, industry veterans DeLong, Gabarro, and Lees show how this model works to: • Align your firm’s culture and key organizational components. • Satisfy your clients’ needs without sacrificing essential managerial responsibilities. • Address matters of size, scale, and complexity while maintaining the qualities that make professional services firms unique. A valuable new resource, this book redefines the role of leadership in professional services firms.

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Harvard Business Press

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1422131068

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The Design of Low Noise Oscillators

By: Ali Hajimiri,Thomas H. Lee

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The Design of Low Noise Oscillators

By: Ali Hajimiri,Thomas H. Lee

It is hardly a revelation to note that wireless and mobile communications have grown tremendously during the last few years. This growth has placed stringent requi- ments on channel spacing and, by implication, on the phase noise of oscillators. C- pounding the challenge has been a recent drive toward implementations of transceivers in CMOS, whose inferior 1/f noise performance has usually been thought to disqualify it from use in all but the lowest-performance oscillators. Low noise oscillators are also highly desired in the digital world, of course. The c- tinued drive toward higher clock frequencies translates into a demand for ev- decreasing jitter. Clearly, there is a need for a deep understanding of the fundamental mechanisms g- erning the process by which device, substrate, and supply noise turn into jitter and phase noise. Existing models generally offer only qualitative insights, however, and it has not always been clear why they are not quantitatively correct.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306481995

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9780306481994

Flying Without a Net

Turn Fear of Change Into Fuel for Success

By: Thomas DeLong

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Flying Without a Net

Turn Fear of Change Into Fuel for Success

By: Thomas DeLong

Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss and change, even the brightest among us are anxious. Packed with practical advice and inspiring stories, "Flying Without a Net" explains how to draw strength from vulnerability.

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Harvard Business Press

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142216229X

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Give Smart

Philanthropy that Gets Results

By: Thomas J Tierney,Joel L. Fleishman

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Give Smart

Philanthropy that Gets Results

By: Thomas J Tierney,Joel L. Fleishman

A decade ago, Thomas J. Tierney left Bain & Company to cofound The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit focused on helping donors and nonprofit leaders to develop and execute strategies to accelerate social change. In Give Smart, Tierney pools his hands-on knowledge with Duke professor Joel L. Fleishman's expertise to create a much-needed primer for philanthropists and the nonprofit organizations they support. Drawing from personal experiences, research spanning twentieth- and twenty-first-century philanthropy, contemporary interviews, and Bridgespan's extensive field work, Give Smart presents the definitive guide to engaged philanthropy.

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1586489895

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Give Smart

Philanthropy that Gets Results

By: Thomas J Tierney,Joel L. Fleishman

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Philanthropy that Gets Results

By: Thomas J Tierney,Joel L. Fleishman

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The Vanishing American Lawyer

By: Thomas D. Morgan

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The Vanishing American Lawyer

By: Thomas D. Morgan

Over 4,000 lawyers lost their positions at major American law firms in 2008 and 2009. In The Vanishing American Lawyer, Professor Thomas Morgan discusses the legal profession and the need for both law students and lawyers to adapt to the needs and expectations of clients in the future. The world needs people who understand institutions that create laws and how to access those institutions' works, but lawyers are no longer part of a profession that is uniquely qualified to advise on a broad range of distinctly legal questions. Clients will need advisors who are more specialized than many lawyers are today and who have more expertise in non-legal issues. Many of today's lawyers do not have a special ability to provide such services. While American lawyers have been hesitant to change the ways they can improve upon meeting client needs, lawyers in other countries, notably Great Britain and Australia, have been better at adapting. Law schools must also recognize the world their students will face and prepare them to operate successfully within it. Professor Morgan warns that lawyers must adapt to new client needs and expectations. The term "professional" should be applied to individuals who deserve praise for skilled and selfless efforts, but this term may lead to occupational suicide if it becomes a justification for not seeing and adapting to the world ahead.

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Oxford University Press

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019974937X

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The Law of Companies

By: Thomas B. Courtney

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The Law of Companies

By: Thomas B. Courtney

The fourth edition of the leading company law textbook, provides the most authoritative and comprehensive commentary on Irish company law following the commencement of the Companies Act 2014. The Companies Act 2014 makes the most far-reaching and fundamental changes to Irish company law in two generations, putting forward a radically different approach whereby the private company limited by shares will become the new model company. The structure of the fourth edition of this highly regarded title mirrors this new Act. The Act comprises over 1,448 Parts and represents the modern statement of the law applicable to the formation of companies, administration and management to their winding up and dissolution, incorporating the rights and duties of their officers, members and creditors. The Act commences on 1 June 2015 and introduces significant changes for companies operating in Ireland. This work has been expanded and revised to account for these legislative changes and important case law. As chairperson of the Company Law Review Group, whose recommendations greatly informed the new Act and as a leading practitioner of company law, Tom Courtney has a unique insight to the new legislation, its purpose and interpretation.The fourth edition is virtually a complete re-write and at approximately 2,900 pages it is some 400 pages longer than the last edition. Fully updated to take account of the dozens of judgments from the Irish and UK courts that have been delivered since the previous edition as well as the new statutory provisions, the fourth edition of The Law of Companies is a 'must have' for all practitioners, students and users of Irish company law.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1784510467

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9781784510466

Diners of the North Shore

By: Gary Thomas

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Diners of the North Shore

By: Gary Thomas

From the time the first handful of night lunch wagons served up their simple fare on the streets of the North Shore in 1890, residents from every social and economic standing have frequented these familiar beacons of hospitality and their descendants, the diners. Over the course of the sixty years that followed, the area's manufacturing, transportation, and recreation centers provided the hungry clientele who helped spur the metamorphosis of the humble lunch wagon into the sleek, efficient, and friendly eatery known as the diner. Diners of the North Shore is a fascinating collection of many previously unpublished images from the golden age of the diner. Bearing names such as Hesperus in Gloucester, Lafayette in Salem, and Suntaug in Peabody, these eat-on-the-run oases provided their customers with not only a square meal but also an atmosphere as welcoming as one's kitchen. From the primitive Night Owl lunch wagon to the art deco-inspired Sterling Streamliner, Diners of the North Shore showcases each diner's unique character, along with the colorful personalities who ran them.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738510718

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Organic Synthesis Workbook III

By: Tom Kinzel,Felix Major,Christian Raith,Thomas Redert,Florian Stecker,Nina Tölle,Julia Zinngrebe

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Organic Synthesis Workbook III

By: Tom Kinzel,Felix Major,Christian Raith,Thomas Redert,Florian Stecker,Nina Tölle,Julia Zinngrebe

Wie die beiden Vorgängerbände (Organic Sytnhesis Workbook I und II) erklärt dieses Arbeitsbuch Prinzipien der organischen Synthesechemie an Beispielen aus modernen, erfolgreichen Naturstoffsynthesen. Übersichtlich strukturiert in Schlüsselreaktionen und Detailerläuterungen, hilft der mit zahlreichen Querverweisen ausgestattete Band bei der selbstständigen Lösung von Syntheseproblemen.

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Wiley-VCH

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3527316655

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Evidence-Based Practices for Social Workers

An Interdisciplinary Approach

By: Thomas O'Hare

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Evidence-Based Practices for Social Workers

An Interdisciplinary Approach

By: Thomas O'Hare

Within the context of the growing demands for ethical, legal, and fiscal accountability in psychosocial practices, Evidence-Based Practice for Social Workers: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Third Edition provides a coherent, comprehensive and useful resource for social workers and other human service professionals. This fully updated text teaches readers to 1) conduct clinical assessments informed by current human behaviour science; 2) implement interventions supported by current outcome research; and 3) engage in evaluation as part of daily practice to ensure effective implementation of evidence-based practices. Sample assessment/evaluation instruments (contributed by leading experts) allow practitioners and students to better understand their use as both assessment and evaluation tools. Case studies and sample treatment plans help the reader bridge the gap between clinical research and everyday practice. Overall, Evidence-Based Practice for Social Workers provides practitioners and students with a thoroughly researched yet practice-oriented resource for learning and implementing effective assessment, intervention and evaluation methods for a wide array of psychosocial disorders and problems-in-living in adults, children and families.

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Oxford University Press

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0190059397

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Book's by Thomas J. Tierney

Aligning the Stars

Aligning the Stars

When Professionals Have to Lead

When Professionals Have to Lead

The Design of Low Noise Oscillators

The Design of Low Noise Oscillators

Flying Without a Net

Flying Without a Net

Give Smart

Give Smart

Give Smart

Give Smart

The Vanishing American Lawyer

The Vanishing American Lawyer

The Law of Companies

The Law of Companies

Diners of the North Shore

Diners of the North Shore

Organic Synthesis Workbook III

Organic Synthesis Workbook III

Evidence-Based Practices for Social Workers

Evidence-Based Practices for Social Workers

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