Wise Leader
Do you really want a team
People in every firm we have visited talk about building a team, working as a team, or their team, but few understood how to create team work or how to develop a high performance team. Being part of a team has a lot to do with the understanding of the mission or objectives of the [...]
New Year's Resolutions
This is the time of year when many people make New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps some of yours will deal with how you save and invest your money, pay off debt, lose weight, or even find a new career. This year I suggest that you put a little more thought into this exercise. A resolution is [...]
Manage Your Firm
Start to talk about strategic planning and people start to get nervous. Forget about the name and the formality, and just concentrate on the elements. Consider the primary purpose for a business, IT, security, or marketing plan and just document the main elements. We really don’t care if you call it a strategic plan or [...]
Can we benefit from a team?
Can high performance teams work in a law firm? The concept of a high performance team includes the release of control to the team. That means that recognition for success or failure is at the team level, never at the individual level. So, for example, if there was a very big or complex case the [...]
Are Your HR cost too High?
The advancement of an employee from one job position to another job position that has a higher salary range, a higher level job title, or a higher level of job responsibilities, is called a promotion. Decision making authority tends to rise with a promotion as well. But what if you decide to just increase the [...]
Why is it so difficult to state your vision
Why is it so difficult to express your vision? We can breakdown this formidable task for law firms like this: In our first interview we learn what you would like. In general, you want to make a profit and since you created a law firm, you want to do that by selling legal services. Further [...]
