Managing Partners Reveal 11 Strategies for Getting Their Firms to the Top
Survey of 150 chief executives also shows 10 ways they stay there.
By Robert J. Lees and
August J. Aquila
Creating the Effective Partnership
This article builds on two extensive bodies of research. The first, to which we refer briefly, is on what differentiates those managing partners who make a substantive difference to their firm’s performance from their peers. To add to our anecdotal understanding of this difference together with our years of desk research, we asked 150 practicing and managing partners from the U.S. and Europe what they believed truly successful managing partners did to make a real difference. The result of this study is an in-depth understanding of the leadership attitudes and behaviors of successful managing partners. READ MORE →