Professional services firms - from the legal sector to accountancy, consulting and beyond - face increased disruption. Service delivery models are under pressure to adapt to changing client expectations. Technology offers new ways of working with clients, but changes the skills profile required of professionals, and threatens the traditional people-centred business model. The Professional Services Leadership Handbook equips leaders, and aspiring leaders, with tools and insights both to tackle these long-term disruptive trends and to maximise their firm's profitability today.
Leaders of professional services firms find themselves with a daunting, but exciting, range of challenges ahead. Using practical insights drawn from experienced professional services leaders, the Professional Services Leadership Handbook explores new models and working practices to address four components of strategic leadership: clients, business, people and self leadership. It offers clear-sighted analysis of common pain points, and provides innovative solutions for dealing with them. This practical guide is designed for everyone involved in leadership decisions, whether that be a practice area, sector group, business function, or even firm-wide leadership role. It will help readers to focus their attention on the activities that will really make a difference to the success of their firm.

Professional Services Leadership Handbook: How to Lead a Professional Services Firm in a New Age of Competitive Disruption

Business & Money

Clark, Nigel

Kent, Ben

Beddow, Alastair

Furner, Adrian

Industries

Kogan Page.

TRIBES: Anthology III presents the following tribes: Bugbears of the Frozen Tears: Lurking in the White Cliffs, the Bugbears of the Frozen Tears revel in terrifying their foes to death. Cultists of Havra Zhoul: Law-obsessed cultists who follow the teachings of the ghostly once-paladin, Havra Zhoul. Duergar of the Obsidian Citadel: Debased and cruel crafters of cursed magic items. Frost Giant Pirates of the Icy Heart: Frost giant pirates and the white dragon Flashfreeze sail their enchanted iceberg-ship in search of plunder Orcs of the Eternal Zenith: Worshippers of the violent, burning aspect of the sun, these orcs spread their beliefs with brutal, missionary zeal. Each tribe uses unique feats, spells and magic items to wage war upon their enemies. Each tribal write-up benefits from many stat blocks as well as extensive notes on their background and culture so that a busy GM can hurl these ferocious foes at his PCs with little preparation."

Raging Swan's Tribes: Anthology III

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Bennett, John

Posener, David

Gaming

Greyworks

Village Backdrops are short, richly detailed supplements that each present a single village ready to insert into almost any home campaign. Perfect for use as a waystop on the road to adventure, as an adventure site themselves or as a PC's home, Village Backdrop present the details so the busy GM can focus on crafting exciting, compelling adventures. This GM's Miscellany collects together the first twelve Village Backdrops, along with bonus, never seen before material, together in one place.

Raging Swan's GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrops

Broadhurst, Creighton J.E.

Got barely enough time to prepare the module? Want to include cool, evocative random encounters in your games, but just don't have the time to prepare them? Bored of pointless random encounters comprising bands of generic monsters that only seem to exist to attack wandering PCs? Then GM's Miscellany: Random Wilderness Encounters is for you! Presenting over 60 ready-to-use random encounters suitable for use in deserts, woodlands, hills, swamps and mountains, Random Encounters: Wilderness takes the pressure off the time-crunched GM, enabling him to concentrate on crafting cool, evocative adventures!

Raging Swan Press's GM's Miscellany: Random Wilderness Encounters

Broadhurst, Creighton

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