This is critical for your business, as well as for yourself.Īlignment is created when a firm's strategy, organizational choices, culture, and leadership are mutually reinforcing. More specifically, we look at why-and how-the concept of alignment can be as powerful on a personal level as it is when applied to the direction of a firm overall. Thus we turn the spotlight on you, the professionals who are these organizations. Their skills, motivation, and behaviors determine the firm's ultimate success or failure. The destiny of the individual and the firm is not easily separated when the underlying business model is powered by professionals: Stars sell and serve clients. If that turmoil transfers into lower productivity or, worse yet, star turnover, a firm can find itself in deep trouble. Outstanding professionals-stars-are inherently ambitious and restless, creating a certain amount of unavoidable turmoil for themselves and their colleagues. Personal aspirations collide with firm realities conflicts rage among a person's competing interests.
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This scenario (with variations) is played out daily in professional firms. He e-mailed Jennifer at the community foundation to share the great news. They were mentor and mentee, colleague and friend, exploring similar questions.Įighteen months later, the office celebrated as Mac landed the biggest account of his career. The dinner ended, and Mac and Jennifer went their separate ways. The headhunter had been persistent-and Jennifer was genuinely intrigued. At this very moment, she was wrestling with whether to retire early from the firm and pursue a leadership role with the local community foundation. In fact, despite the two decades that separated them, Jennifer had often asked herself the same questions over the years.
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