Back in the day –almost twenty years ago — when I spent more time with my daughters in the span of a day than I do in a week now that they’re grown, one of our favorite car-song anthems was This One’s for the Girls by Martina McBride. It’s a peppy song that celebrates
A couple of months before the pandemic hit, tidy-up evangelist Marie Kondo released a new book, Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life , which applies Kondo’s decluttering principles to the workplace context. As this article describes, Kondo advises readers to decide what to keep and what to cull by asking themselves a particular object
In one fell swoop, COVID-19 put an end to salad bars, hot-food buffets and other types of self-serve operations that have become popularized in takeout restaurants and grocery stores over the past decade. And even as establishments reopen, self-serve buffets may be thing of the past because it’s nearly impossible to control the spread of
Have you ever considered a new practice area or business model for your law firm but weren’t sure whether it had legs? If you’re looking for a quick way to figure out the NBT, you might try the “rule of three” – which is how Chris Wilson, founder of Lululemon knew that a company
Just wanted to share that the Power Pacts recording is available here now! I’m still working on supplemental materials which will hopefully be available in another week.
In Part I of this two-part series, I discussed why it’s so difficult for lawyers to resist the siren’s song of coaching and marketing programs that promise the sky but often fail to deliver. Here in Part II, I’ve set out a long list of factors to help lawyers separate the wheat from the chaff
Like anyone else, even rational, bright, ever-skeptical attorneys are vulnerable to high-cost, low return coaching, consultant and marketing programs. As I wrote here six years ago, there are plenty of reasons why attorneys are easy prey for questionable, pricey programs.
For starters, many lawyers running their own firm particularly during economically-shaky times like these naturally
As the saying goes, numbers don’t lie. But numbers don’t always count either.
Here’s what I mean. We know that the numbers tell us that millions of Americans can’t find the legal help they need, a shortfall that has been exacerbated by the pandemic. We know that the numbers tell us that discriminatory police
As some of you already know, on Friday, May 29, 2020, I’m scheduled to present a 90-minute webinar on Power Pacts: Agreements to Fuel Law Firm or Career Growth and Unleash New Revenue Streams (click on the link for details or to register, click HERE. But for those of you who can’t attend, I’ve
Are you looking for ways to increase your law firm’s revenue stream? Or recently laid off from a law firm or in-house position but not sure that you’re ready to take the leap of opening your own independent firm. Come learn about the power of power pacts – agreements between lawyers that leverage the power