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Developing Processes
March 23, 2025
Your Culture is a Safety Net
Your culture is a safety net. It’s essentially a permission structure that gives people the courage to act in certain ways because they know that a) certain actions are approved […]
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: Your Culture is a Safety Net
Managing People
February 15, 2025
It’s All Interconnected, But Start Somewhere
Remember finishing up a camping trip, looking forward to a nice warm shower and a good night’s sleep on your bed that night? Getting the sand from your shoes? The […]
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: It’s All Interconnected, But Start Somewhere
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December 22, 2024
Being “A Best Place to Work”
I am, sadly, an underground skeptic of the “Best Place to Work” stuff, for two reasons: Yet, even though the awards may not correlate too well with the actual places […]
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: Being “A Best Place to Work”
Managing People
December 15, 2024
Defining Success for Yourself
First, if you are running a firm that makes money, does good work, with people you (usually) enjoy being around, the odds are stellar that you are a remarkable human […]
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: Defining Success for Yourself
Developing Processes
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Managing Clients
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Managing People
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Processes
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October 13, 2024
Rethinking the Incentive Structures at Your Firm
While it wasn’t a huge audience who heard the speech at Harvard in 1995, what Charlie Munger shared that day spread very quickly. It got picked up and reshared by so many […]
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: Rethinking the Incentive Structures at Your Firm
Managing People
September 15, 2024
How Your Hiring Strategies Change
What got you here—in terms of your approach to staffing—won’t get you there. There are some staffing strategies that are absolutely the right choice in the early days, but they […]
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: How Your Hiring Strategies Change
Management
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Managing People
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Roles
May 19, 2024
Developing a Compensation Framework
Decisions that involve emotion and have long-term implications are tricky, and what you pay any individual at your firm qualifies on both counts: tricky and long-term. My suggestion is to […]
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: Developing a Compensation Framework
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Managing People
May 5, 2024
Be Gracious When Employees Leave
I’d have to say that most leaders are pretty good at this, but even so they fight down some feelings that might get away from them if they aren’t careful. […]
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: Be Gracious When Employees Leave
Management
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Managing People
March 31, 2024
Good Leaders/Managers Are Balanced
You have to move the sliders into a unique combination for each challenge. The four elements in thisillustration were just chosen at random—I’m not saying that these are the four that […]
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: Good Leaders/Managers Are Balanced
Growth
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Managing People
March 17, 2024
We’re Terrified When You’re Bored
Like the headline states, your people are terrified when you’re bored. Why? Because you’re liable to do something crazy to spice things up. But that’s not really the terrifying part. […]
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: We’re Terrified When You’re Bored
Management
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Managing People
February 11, 2024
Your Scarcity Mindset Creates Chaos
There’s this weird mental condition that all of us slide into from time to time, and then there are some folks who wallow in it regularly. It’s called a “scarcity […]
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: Your Scarcity Mindset Creates Chaos
Expertise
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Marketing
January 21, 2024
Adding Contractors Into the Mix
While I don’t have specific data to quantity this, I’ve never seen this many firms moving away from traditional staffing models to use a mix of contractors, instead. This is […]
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: Adding Contractors Into the Mix
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Managing People
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