4 Steps To Growing Your Leadership Presence
When you talk, you want others to listen, right? Whether it’s a now-or-never event (making a key point in an oral argument, for instance) or one in a long stream of communications (talking with a colleague about some aspect of a representation), getting your point across and making some sort of advance in what you’re […]
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21 Laws of Leadership
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them And People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell The subtitle of Maxwell’s book is “Follow Them, and People Will Follow You.” Each time I read that line, I hear a rejoinder in my head: “Don’t follow them, and people won’t follow you.” Revised and updated in […]
Burning the candle at both ends?
I burn my candle at both ends It will not last the night. But ah my foes and oh my friends It gives a lovely light. Edna St. Vincent Millay What do you think when you read this? If you’re like many lawyers, you felt a flutter of recognition — perhaps just before you recoiled […]
Are you stuck in Groundhog Day?
Through years of school and various jobs and activities, we’ve learned how to persist even in the face of difficulties. Persistence is an important trait, since (in the words of one of my current favorite songs) “what’s worth the prize is always worth the fight.” No fight may mean no prize, and we’ve integrated that […]
Road trip!
Last year was incredibly busy for me, first with writing The Reluctant Rainmaker and then with designing programs like the Lawyers Business Development Bootcamp, plus working with many 1-on-1 clients. It was a great year, but toward the fall I started to notice that I’ve met very few of my clients and newsletter readers in […]
Set Yourself Apart
Do you ever feel that you’re just one lawyer in a large sea of others? New lawyers often begin their practices wondering how to distinguish themselves from the hundreds or thousands of other lawyers occupying the same niche. And lawyers who’ve been in practice for some time may have the same nagging question. Though the […]