If I focus only on improving overall team performance, can I really expect every individual's performance to improve as well?

In it's basic form, improvement is the process by which we close performance gaps in order to achieve desired results. The "what" to be improved is performance. Improvement is a performance issue, not a results issue.

Control is just one aspect of the performance equation; results centering around increasing assets revenue is another.

there are very specific things you can do, and my purpose in this issue of Practice Management is to share three strategies our clients have related to us.

Special meetings should add value to what team members are doing.

Ameriprise seems to be doing just fine without the backing of its former parent company, American Express. The firm had a good second quarter, meeting analyst consensus expectations, enjoying strong asset flows, improving advisor productivity and...

There was an unprecedented 89 deals for fund-management firms in the first half of 2006, according to a July report by Putnam Lovell NBF Securities. If this acquisition pace continues, it will top the previous high set in 2000.

Lawyers often see family members get ugly over assets. Rarely, though, does the nastiness literally explode, sending one of the parties to meet his maker. But that's exactly what happened in the case of Dr. Nicholas Bartha and his ex-wife Cordula...

Wall Street’s retail brokerages managed to ride out a rocky couple of months in the equity market and still come out on top in the second quarter.

Financial advisors, beware. If you transfer assets belonging to a number of your clients without their authorization—even if you’ve done so in anticipation of a downturn in the market—your next stop won’t necessarily be an arbitrator’s table. It...