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Your Law Firm’s (Secret) Autobiography
Almost every law firm has some type of "about us" page on its website.
Have you ever considered what an honest "autobiography" of your firm would say?
Of course, it wouldn't be for publication, but it could be more important than what you publish to the world.
Change Management and Strategic Success
Over the years — and especially in the past eight years — our firm has observed a direct positive link between the skill with which a law firm manages change and its return on investment in strategic planning.
What excites you?
A good business case can be persuasive.
Excitement is what can make it compelling.
Will We Succeed? Five Tests for Strategic Implementation
There are two phenomena that are far too common in law firm strategic planning.
The first is the the exciting, visionary, brilliantly-written strategic plan that collects dust on a remote bookshelf in the managing partner's office and is never implemented.
The second is the plan that consumes substantial resources — especially partner time — but produces disappointing results, and sometimes counterproductive ones.
Recession-Proof Your Law Firm: New Dynamic Approaches to Planning
This is final installment in a series of four posts about how law firms can anticipate, prepare for, and respond successfully to the next recession or economic downturn..
It outlines the third, and possibly most important, change that law firms must make to increase their chances of surviving the next recession (assuming that they emerge from the recent one).
Three (Plus One) Most Important Things
I was asked yesterday about strategic planning in law firms.
"Quick! Based on your experience, what are the three most important things that law firms need to keep in mind about strategic planning."
