What Does Being a Partner Mean?

How to set and enforce standards of performance.

By Robert J. Lees and August J. Aquila
Creating the Effective Partnership

Partners are the culture in a professional services firm – what they believe, what they reward, what they do and how they do it determines what and how things get done.

But, one of the problems we consistently hear about is the lack of clarity in what being a partner means. And, in the absence of clarity the partners typically fill the gap by doing what they think it means, with all of the differences of thought and behavior that inevitably brings.