Let the partners see that you mean business.
By Martin Bissett
Passport to Partnership
Rising from senior manager to partner often means being promoted ahead of our peers and contemporaries. It creates a gap in earnings, stature and influence compared to those who were our colleagues on a level playing field just yesterday.
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It can also mean that if we are coming into a firm from the outside, we are being promoted over people who have served at that firm for many years and understand the firm’s culture much better than we do now. We may have to lead these people as the head of a department and if so, they’d better be on our side.
This is where the principle of commitment is applied.
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