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The burning question on every ambitious fee-earner's lips is: 'how do I make partner at this firm?' This book is your route map to making it to the top in a professional services firm. It shows you how to stand out, be in the right place at the right time and build your kitbag of skills to overcome the many hurdles and reach the Holy Grail of becoming partner. This book reveals what it really takes to make it, and what it will involve once you're there. It helps you make an informed decision on whether or not this is the right step for you, and guides you on how to become a partner and still have a life of your own. Heather Townsend and Jo Larbie show you the rules of the game, laying bare exactly what you need to do to take the ultimate step.

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Crystal clear. Razor sharp. And intensely practical. This book is an absolute must for anyone who wants to become a partner, wants to make themselves a better partner, or wants to grow future partners as part of their succession plan.

I wish I'd had access to a book like this before I became a partner.

How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life provides practical guidance on the things you need to think about and do as you develop your career. It is a valuable contribution to the very limited guidance on what you need to do if it's your ambition to make partner.

Another must-have read from Heather Townsend. A book that looks at the reality of what it is to be a Partner and provides essential practical advice for anyone considering promotion.

As an award winning and people development focussed firm, I have to say that this book will become required reading for our aspiring people. The insight and avoidance of 'guru-speak' make the case studies very real. An essential read for anyone at or seeking a senior position in a professional practice.

Highly recommended read for aspiring partners and HR professionals. Inspirational advice for creating a new generation of successful partnerships.

I wish this book had been around when I was a junior lawyer - it's a brilliant and practical guide to the issues surrounding partnership - how to work out if you really want it as well as helping you to create a road map to get it. It will also help a lot of partners gain some focus in these challenging times and treat partnership as the beginning, not the end of a journey. I particularly like the action points at the end of each chapter. I'm going to put it in our firm's library with a big 'Read Me' sticker on it!

If you have aspirations to make Partner and you only purchase one book this year - make this that one. It could quite literally change your life.

Life is about choices. If you know of this book and choose to ignore it, you do so at your peril!. This book is the bible for every ambitious person in professional services. Too many would be partners 'live to work'. 'How To Make Partner and Still Have A Life', makes an outstanding contribution towards getting control of your time and thinking in order to 'work to live'. It is a must buy.

Original, clear, concise and brilliantly written, this handbook is packed with invaluable insights. An absolute must-read (and potential life saver) for anyone pursuing a professional career. From long experience, Larbie and Townsend explain exactly how to reach both success AND that elusive work-life balance many top professionals so desperately need.

Packed with practical tips, exercises and advice from partners who have already made it, this is an essential career guide for any professional, whether aiming for partnership or unsure about their future direction. Highly recommended reading!

There is so much of value to partners and future partners in this book that I don't know where to start! It is a book, like Heathers first, that I will recommend to all my professional services clients. Heather and Jo's experience of working on the inside of a professional firm shines through and every chapter contains something of practical value. The real life case studies will convince you that you can make partner and still have a life. I'm even putting some of their tips into practice in my own life.

This book sets out what you need to do to objectively decide you want to be a partner and then guides you through the process to get you there.

Too many people get part-way through their career with no clear ambition or idea of where it is going.This book is an essential tool for anyone within the professions - and in other areas too - to help them understand and work out what they want to achieve, and how best to achieve it.

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