How Will You Choose Your Next Managing Partner?

Business people having meetingTwo questions to consider.

By Robert J. Lees, August J. Aquila and Derek Klyhn

The role of managing partner is just too important and too complex to leave the selection of the appropriate candidate to chance.

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With the scale of the challenges firms are facing, no firm we know can afford not to identify and develop a group of partners with the ability to successfully take on the role of managing partner in the future.