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Art's Principles: 50 years of hard-learned lessons in building a world-class professional services firm
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Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9780986106989
Publisher: Wilson Lafferty
Published: Mar 1 2015
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Art's Principles reveals the blueprint behind one of the most successful professional services firms, giving career-minded individuals the tools they need to excel in business. The book covers the essentials of leadership, talent acquisition and operations, while outlining the creative strategies that propelled a small business into one of the largest and most admired in its industry. This guidebook is full of well-tested ideas that are applicable to someone running a small, medium or large a professional firm-or running any project where people, profit and customers matter.
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