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Posted In: Compensation & Performance, Practice Group Management, Strategic Planning

Solving the Great Partner Compensation Puzzle – Promoting Teamwork (Part 4)

In my last three blogs I have been focused on the ability to solve the “teamwork puzzle” in a law firm and the

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Posted In: Business Development

Law Firm CMO/CBDOs: Staying On Course

I was thinking of you Chief Marketing and Chief Business Development Officers out there as I was reading an aviation magazine recently to

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Posted In: Business Development

Is Selling Legal Services All That Risky?

In our business we often hear “lawyers are risk-adverse and therefore don’t like to sell since it’s putting themselves out there to potentially

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Posted In: Culture & Diversity, Strategic Planning

Why Can’t We Do Both?

Four hours into a recent, heated session with the Strategy Committee of a thoughtful mid-size firm, I was pointedly reminded of the primary

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Posted In: Talent Strategy

Law Firm Hiring Models: No Longer “Par for the Course”

Every year about this time I experience the same hallucination –  By the time the cold Chicago weather breaks, I’ll be a good

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Posted In: Compensation & Performance, Practice Group Management, Strategic Planning

Solving the Great Partner Compensation Puzzle – Promoting Teamwork (Part 3)

In my last two blogs I have been focused on the ability to solve the “teamwork puzzle” in a law firm and the

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Posted In: Business Development

Overcoming Business Development Procrastination

I often ask groups of lawyers to brainstorm with me to list obstacles they experience when attempting business development activities. I want to

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Posted In: Legal Project Management, Strategic Planning

Is Legal Project Management Just One of Many Starting Points to Creating Effective Teams?

Last month, I opined that legal project management (“LPM”) is a potential solution to creating effective teams.  Today, I’m adding (or perhaps clarifying)

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Posted In: Uncategorized

Avoiding unnecessary risk to your book of business – More lessons from the Super Bowl “lights out” fiasco

This year’s Super Bowl organizers watched in horror as half the stadium lights went dark on Sunday.  How could this happen?  On the

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Posted In: Leadership Support & Development

Lessons for Lawyers from the Super Bowl: Leadership is Fragile

Like virtually everyone else at the Super Bowl party I attended Sunday evening (in Chicago), I didn’t have a favorite in the game

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