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\"TheThe Professional Service Firm 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Your “Department” into a Professional Service Firm Whose Trademarks are Passion and Innovation!<\/a>\"\"
\nby Tom Peters<\/p>\n

The White Collar Revolution is upon us, and 90% of jobs are in danger of major reconfiguration\u2014or extinction. This ground-breaking new series, Tom Peters Trilogy: The Reinventing Work Series,\u00a0aims at nothing less than a total re-invention of work (how we think about it, undertake it, bring ourselves to it). The books are in the form of “50 lists”\u2014The Brand You 50<\/em>, The Project 50<\/em>, and The Professional Service Firm 50<\/em>. Each contains 50 essential ideas for making this revolution an opportunity for dramatic change in our own working lives.<\/p>\n

The Professional Service Firm 50<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The economy is evolving at cyberspeed. The new game: leveraging knowledge. And the new organizational model: the Professional Service Firm!<\/p>\n

These project-driven dynamos long ago mastered the art of doing work that matters\u2014and they have the profits and bragging right to prove it.<\/p>\n

Learn how to generate urgency and excitement, partner with your clients (and fire them if necessary), master information flow and timelines, and deliver WOW! results … every time. This book is a millennial must!<\/p>\n

(This book review was originally published in\u00a02000 as one of the Top 10 Books – Edition 3.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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