As highlighted in PART ONE and PART TWO of this series, there are real leadership lessons for legal leaders from the career, achievements and life of the late Steve Jobs – who in just two stints of 9 and 14 years, founded and then transformed Apple Computer into the world’s most valuable company. These were the lessons… Continue Reading
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Subscribe to Culture RSS FeedYou gotta feel sorry for those angry, difficult partners!
Posted in Culture, Law Firms, Leaders, Leadership, Legal Profession, Management, Partners, Professional Service Firms (PSFs), Trust & Respect, valuesIt does seem like we have been laying into angry or difficult partners lately – so much so, you (almost) gotta feel sorry for them! (not really, we all know how difficult they can really be and how much time and positive energy they eat up) – 3 recent posts attest to this: Difficult partners… Continue Reading
The real leadership lessons of Steve Jobs – for legal leaders – PART ONE
Posted in Culture, Law Firms, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Frames, Legal Profession, Management, Strategy, VisionWalter Isaacson, author of the Steve Jobs autobiography, commented in an April 2012 Harvard Business Review article ‘The real leadership lessons of Steve Jobs‘ (subscription required), that following the publication of his book many writers have tried to draw management lessons from Steve Jobs, however, most of them, incorrectly, became fixated rather on the “rough… Continue Reading
Leadership Frame #9: what to do with the difficult cogs in a partnership
Posted in Culture, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Frames, Legal Profession, Management, People Strategy, valuesSome partners are downright difficult. This makes them awkward cogs to fit into the firm set-up, particularly where they are top producers, run important clients or contribute in other meaningful ways. And let’s face it, all too often they are and do. It is important therefore to work out an approach you can use for… Continue Reading
Leadership Frame #8: difficult partners – what not to do
Posted in Culture, Law Firms, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Frames, Legal Profession, People Strategy, Personal effectiveness, valuesDifficult partners are tough work. As a professional services firm leader or senior manager, at some stage you are going to be faced with the unenviable task of dealing with one or more. As I am sure you will confirm, they can be gnarly, hard nuts to handle. ‘Difficult’ comes in various shapes and forms…. Continue Reading
Volatile future will demand law firms bring more to the party
Posted in Australasia, Australia, Change, Culture, Law Firms, Leaders, Leadership, Legal Profession, Strategy, UncategorizedThe challenging future legal and business environment which is widely anticipated will demand a lot more from law firms than providing quality legal advice. This is the view of Ian Robertson, long-standing managing partner of Holding Redlich’s Sydney office, writing in The Australian (apologies; link requires subscription or log-in) recently. This advice backs up on the… Continue Reading
Wall Street Journal’s ‘law firms must merge or die’ revisited
Posted in Australasia, Australia, Culture, Leadership, Legal Profession, Mergers and acquisitions, StrategyIn the recent WSJ article “Stark choice for lawyers – firms must merge or die“ author Jennifer Smith reasons that due to client and competitive pressures law firms have a ‘stark choice: to ‘merge or die’. As a result, she says, there has been a ‘flurry’ of merger deals. The author’s conclusions are hard to reconcile… Continue Reading
Australian law firm offers senior employees opportunity to own shares
Posted in Australasia, Australia, Business Models, Culture, Employee Benefits, Middle Market, Ownership ModelsEmployees own shares in this dynamic 105 year old Australian law firm M+K Lawyers, headed up by National Managing Director Damian Paul. M+K has embarked on a remarkable growth strategy around a unique business model and culture. Damian agreed to answer some questions: Sean: Your business model is unique and was the first of its kind… Continue Reading
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