Managing Partner Leadership
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He Told Me What He Was Actually Buying
A managing partner sent me his due diligence list before merger talks. Billable hour minimums, AR aging, health insurance, travel policy. Thorough. And one line buried in the middle that turned out to be the whole deal.
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It Was About This Time Every Year That I’d Pop My Head Up and Realize: I Hadn’t Done Any of It
It was about this time every year — late April, early May — that I’d pop my head up. Take a deep breath. Anticipate the summer break coming. And look back at the first four months of the year to see how I was doing against the goals I’d set for myself in January. Kind…
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I Thought I Was Being a Good Leader. I Was Just Resetting Everyone’s Brain Every 17 Minutes.
What a Q&A question at the NYSBA webinar taught me about who was actually creating the problem I was wrapping up a webinar for the New York State Bar Association last week — about 133 attorneys on the line, good energy, solid program — when a question came in that stopped me mid-answer. Someone was…
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They Said “I Hear You, But…” Five Times…
I explained something to a colleague. Clearly. Logically. With data to back it up. They looked at me and said: “I hear you, but I’m just not comfortable with it.” So I thought: Maybe I wasn’t clear enough. And I explained it again. With more detail. More examples. Better analogies. “I hear you, but…” I…