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For Growth You Need More and Less

By Michael

I was thinking today about the traits or behaviors that a solo lawyer trying to transition his firm from a startup to a growth stage should focus on.  I came up with a list of certain things which I think such a lawyer should do more, and certain things they should do less.

Do these more:

• Focus
• Manage proactively
• Delegate and outsource
• Establish systems and structures
• Trust your team members and hold them accountable
• Strategic planning
• Share credit
• Market the practice
• Spend a designated portion of every day or every week on the “big picture” not just the day to day operations

Do these less:

• Solve all of the problems
• Answer all of the questions
• Manage reactively
• Make all of the decisions
• Shoot from the hip
• Do all of the technical legal work in the firm
• Think short term

What have I left out?

Full post as published by Law for Profit on October 24, 2007 (boomark / email).