Law Firm Leadership Lessons from Rock Climbing

October 29, 2020
It might surprise you how much business leaders can learn from an activity as rooted in counter culture and rebellion as rock climbing. After all, until the nationwide explosion of climbing gyms brought the activity into the mainstream, the thought of rock climbing conjured images of unkempt, muscled women and men camped out in Yosemite Valley, forsaking creature comforts in favor of the simple freedom of an impossible pursuit: conquering mountains. Rock climbing’s pioneers were proud, self-proclaimed “dirt bags.” They were also practitioners of something bordering on the spiritual.

Rewilding for Business Success and Mental Health

October 15, 2020
Back in March, when the Covid-19 pandemic was reaching global proportions and folks everywhere were forced into quarantine, I found myself tunneling down one of those internet rabbit holes reading about zoos. In retrospect, this was all too appropriate...but at the time I didn’t make the connection between my locked-in circumstance and the life lived by captive animals across the world. You see, I was reading about the subject, not because felt caged, but because a major construction project was under way across the street and the daily noise was making me crazy.

Resilient Leadership Traits That Grow Law Firms

October 8, 2020
In this present moment, it’s not hard to see why resiliency matters. The combination of economic uncertainty, a raging pandemic, and palpable political tension will test anyone’s composure. It’s not just exceptionally tough times that demand a steady hand, though. Resiliency is a practice and getting good at it means nurturing a resilient character day in and day out—both when adversity is great, and also when it’s not.

Break Excuse Habits to Boost Productivity

September 23, 2020
We live in an accelerated world. If you’ve read Juliet B. Schor’s pathbreaking book, The Overworked American, you know that US workers log more hours and less vacation than the average medieval peasant. This was true in 1991 when Schor’s book was published and, if anything, it is even more true now. The supercharged pace of daily life creates a world of unrealistic expectations. We overextend ourselves because hard work is a moral imperative. Amidst this “always-more” mindset, excuses provide a lifeline. After all, being too busy is a legitimate—even revered—state of affairs, and so it provides a clean getaway from stressful tasks. In warp-speed economics, excuses save us from ourselves.

Attorney Business Skills: 3 Must-Have Traits for Success

September 17, 2020
Law school is not your average pursuit and there’s nothing elitist about saying so. The average median GPA required to gain admission to a Top 10 School is 3.865. Schools ranked outside of the Top 10 still require a 3.4. Not a lot of people cruise through school picking up these sorts of grades (the national average GPA is 3.0). While good grades say precious little about a person they are nonetheless a wide-spread trading token and when your token is marked with a fancy number it means that in academic pursuits you’re trading above average.

Boost Employee Morale Without Breaking the Bank

August 20, 2020
You’re not alone if, in this moment, everything seems complicated. After all, the present is a time when you need medical-grade PPE to get groceries and an advance appointment to hit the gym. Once-simple decisions—such as whether to attend a friend’s birthday—now require careful reflection, and I won’t even get started on how back-to-school season has changed…

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