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Mike Mister is a leadership consultant and educator specializing in professional services firms. He has extensive experience working with partners and senior executives to develop leadership capabilities and organizational effectiveness.
Known for: How To Lead Smart People: Leadership for Professionals
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How To Lead Smart People: Leadership for Professionals
This book provides practical guidance for professionals who find themselves leading highly skilled and intelligent teams. It explores the unique challenges of managing experts, offering strategies to build trust, foster collaboration, and create an environment where talented individuals can thrive. Drawing on real-world examples, the author outlines how to balance authority with autonomy and how to lead through influence rather than control.
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Understanding Expertise
Professionals define themselves by their expertise. It is both their currency and their identity. Unlike many employees whose roles are shaped by organizational goals, professionals see their sense of worth tied directly to what they know and how skillfully they can apply that knowledge. In expert-b...
From How To Lead Smart People: Leadership for Professionals
The Leader’s Role: From Command to Influence
In traditional leadership models, authority is positional — the manager directs, others comply. But in an expert organization, authority is relational. Professionals will only follow those they believe possess competence, integrity, and insight. Influence, not rank, becomes your currency. My own ex...
From How To Lead Smart People: Leadership for Professionals
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Mike Mister is a leadership consultant and educator specializing in professional services firms. He has extensive experience working with partners and senior executives to develop leadership capabilities and organizational effectiveness.
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