■ The Big Idea
Congratulations!! You have been promoted to Group Leader!! Now what? Patrick J. McKenna and David H. Maister take you on a step-by-step instructional narrative on how to effectively manage a group of professionals. Not only will this book benefit the “newbies” who may flounder in the wake of crises and primadonnas, but it will also work for the veterans who may pick up a lesson or two from leaders, career experts and other regular people whose actual experiences are used as concrete, real-world examples.

You can find people, events and situations, problems and solutions that you yourself have encountered so it becomes easy for you to relate to the discussion. Psychology, coaching and mentoring and a paradigm shift from “individual success” to “group victory” are at the heart of First Among Equals.

■ About the Author
Patrick J. McKenna is the author of Building Business Abroad and coauthor of Practice Development: Creating A Marketing Mindset; a text published by Butterworths, distributed in five countries, and recognized by an international journal as "one of the top ten books that any professional services marketer should have on their bookcase." His most recent publications include Herding Cats: A handbook for managing partners and practice leaders (1995); and Beyond KNOWING: 16 Cage-Rattling Questions To Jump-Start Your Practice Team (2000), both of which achieved recognition on the Canadian Management Top 10 bestsellers list.

David H. Maister is widely acknowledged as the worlds leading authority on the management of professional service firms. Maister left the academia to establish his fulltime consulting practice. His first book on professional services is Managing the Professional Service Firm. It was followed in 1997 by True Professionalism, and in 2000 by The Trusted Advisor, written with Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford. His 2001 book, Practice What You Preach, hit the Wall Street Journal business bestseller list. For more information, visit http: www.firstamongequals.com