Professional Mudmaps - Cultural Differences Across the Professions: Stocktake of Posts as at 24 September 06

This post lists previous posts that have dealt in some way with cultural differences across and within the professions. There have actually been a fair number, so I thought that a consolidation might be of assistance.

• 4 July 2006. Self-employed professionals vs business builders. This, only my second post, pointed to the difference between the self-employed professional and those trying to build professional services businesses.
• 22 July 2006. Professional services - pricing, positioning and service areas continued looked at the way in which differences in markets and services even within a single field (law) and a single firm could create problems because of failure to recognise differences.
• 25 July 2006 People management in professional services - professionals vs managers examined the differences in training and culture between professionals and managers.
• 31 July 2006. Snippets raised the issue of differences across the professions.
• 12 September 2006. Professional Mudmaps introduced a more extended discussion of differences across the professions using the concept of professional mudmaps as a peg.
• 13 September 2006. Professional Mudmaps - Project Based vs Relationship Based extended the mudmaps discussion lookin at the differences between project and relationship based approaches.
• 16 September 16, 2006. Maister on Maister - "Help me with my strategy, please" looked again at some of differences in culture.
• 21 September 2006 Towards a Discipline of Practice looked at the question of the development of a discipline of practice across professions.
• 22 September 2006. Role of the Diagnostic in Professional Practice - medicine vs law compared the diagnostic approaches adopted in these two areas.

Previous Stocktakes

• 7 September 2006. People Management in Professional Services - Previous Posts as at 7 September 06