Mark and I have been on many programs together over the years. He tells it like he sees it and is always entertaining. This book is no exception. The tagline to Be Happy By Choice is—Happiness guaranteed or your misery back! Now, tell me, who could resist that guarantee? Here are some excerpts from the
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Legal Business Development: Is It Time To Shake Things Up?
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Posted in Business Development, Inspired Thought
The legal profession is evolving… are you? Granted change is tough. But the longer you put it off, the farther behind you fall, and the harder it is to get started. So, make the choice… take the first step! Harvard Business Review offers a great place to start…Three Ways to Help Your Company Snap…
Legal Business Development: You Can’t Do Everything!
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Posted in Inspired Thought
Do you feel like you define the term “multi-tasking?” You simply can’t say no. You do everything and yet you feel that you aren’t doing any of it as well as you could be. Of course you’re not. You are overloaded and you need to focus, set boundaries and learn to say no! Peter Bregman…
Legal Business Development: Networking – Women Need to Think Differently
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Posted in Building Relationships
Men are From Mars; Women are From Venus. When that book came out in 1992 it was quite revolutionary… Men and women think differently. In wasn’t news to any couple on the planet, but now we had the evidence… and new ways to manage those differences. Networking is an area that those differences can mean…
Legal Business Development: If It’s Urgent… Pick Up The Phone!
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Posted in Building Relationships
“It was urgent! Didn’t you get the email?” We have all gotten this kind of email. When we do we panic… which one of these 243 emails I have received in the past 24 hours is it? We sort and find it. It wasn’t marked urgent, but then again even if it had been marked…
Legal Business Development: What’s Your Strategy?
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Posted in Developing A Strategic Plan
Do you have a strategic plan, a business development plan or a marketing plan? Do you have a budget to make things happen? Is it the partner that speaks loud enough that gets an initiative started? Does your strategy move with the politics of the day? Is it written down or a repeated conversation that…
Legal Business Development: Is Multi-Tasking Killing Your Productivity?
By Paula Black on
Posted in Inspired Thought
We have all been there… needing to do two or three things at once. Seldom do we feel like we’ve done anything well. The reality is that if we focus on each task, complete it and move on to the next, we will do each one much better and probab feel more satisfied in doing…
Legal Business Development: Fear of Failure
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Posted in Developing A Strategic Plan
When we think of the strengths of lawyers it’s generally: achiever, perfectionist, communicator, competitive, strategist and the list goes on. What these strengths have in common is… failure is not an option! But, how do you define failure? In the article in Harvard Business Review By Peter Simms… The No.1 Enemy of Creativity: Fear …
Legal Business Development: Consider Not Setting Goals?
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Posted in Developing A Strategic Plan
Consider not setting goals? Heresy! Why would Peter Bregman, contributor to the Harvard Business Review write such a thing? He’s the master of getting things done, focusing, prioritizing, etc. Remember that he’s the author of 18 Minute: Find Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done. This shatters what we’ve been taught since grade…
Legal Business Development: CHANGE-10 Ways to Lead Those Who Resist!
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Posted in Inspired Thought
Change! Just the mention of the word may make a few lawyers breakout in a cold sweat. Openness to change is not at the top of the list when it comes to lawyer traits. Just because its not at the top of the list doesn’t mean that as a leader of lawyers you can’t navigate…