Building the star firm
July 25th, 2010 admin
Following on from my change the world post , colleague and occasional collaborator Ray Wang asked me to look at Personal Log: The 7 Tenets of Building a ‘Star Analyst’ Firm . Anyone who is thinking about restructuring their practice or going for the creative destruction model needs to read this. I remember meeting Ray in Pasadena just about the time he was ready to jump from Forrester to start building Altimeter. He looked awful. Those of us who are working as independents in the analyst/consulting/commenting game work darned hard, often keeping ridiculous …
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