To win, your firm needs “peak performance” from all your people, which, in turn, requires that they be motivated and receive constructive coaching.
THE PROBLEM
In my experience, working with hundreds of firms globally, there is a common propensity for people to react negatively to even well-intentioned feedback. The person receiving the feedback often experiences
At Peter Diamandis’s website, he doesn’t even mention that he’s a Harvard medical graduate and an MIT physicist… Perhaps these pale in comparison with his other accomplishments you can see here.
Lawyers with whom I work, whether members of a leadership teams in a global firm or simply building their books of business almost
I was delighted to be asked to create an article on leadership for the Law Practice Management Magazine of the American Bar Association.
My hands-on work with law firm clients has been very focused on the pandemic, remote working, and the need for extra special consideration of members of firm teams due to the strains
In most of the cultures on this planet, it is not polite—nor is it easy—to say “no.” In fact, in most cultures, saying “no” is considered inappropriate behaviour. As a result, due to our backgrounds most of us find it very difficult to say “no” when we have to, or when we should, in business
I was recently honoured to find Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices on a list of “13 blogs legal marketers should follow.” The list was compiled by Steven Gallo, content-marketing manager at Reputation Ink – a content marketing and public relations agency for legal and B2B companies – and writer/editor at the InkSights blog.
Gallo argues that
Watch this episode of Daniel Pink’s Pinkcast, featuring Steven G. Rogelberg, winner of the 2017 Humboldt Research Award and author of The Surprising Science of Meetings: How to Take Your Team to Peak Performance.
The video will take less than three minutes of your life, and can improve endless numbers of minutes and
I propose* that you join the most effective law firm leaders in the world and start asking “how,“ rather than “whether.”
Let us start with an illustration. Here are two questions that a managing partner might ask a practice group leader. Which do you think will lead to better results?
Lest any of us get too comfortable in our swivel chairs, a new report from Michael B. Rynowecer, president of the BTI Consulting Group, indicates that in 2018 – despite spending more on outside legal counsel than ever before – clients are using fewer outside firms than ever.
In a September issue of The
As all of us know, most meetings are a pain. Many attendees are there only out of obligation or fear of being negatively perceived.
A recent article by Paul Axtell in the Harvard Business Review, entitled “5 Common Complaints about Meetings and What to Do about Them,” takes a refreshing look at how meetings might
With our natural propensity as lawyers to jump to the negative, an excerpt from a new book entitled Impromptu: Leading in the Moment by Judith Humphrey may offer a good balancer.
