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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 […]

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 […]

Clients, Developing Processes, Expertise, Finance, Growing Your Business, Growth, Management, Managing Clients, Managing People, Marketing, Roles, Succession and M&A, The Work

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 […]

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 […]

Developing Processes, Growing Your Business, Management, Managing Clients, Managing People, Processes, Roles

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 […]

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 […]

Management, Managing People, 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 […]

Benchmarking, Management, 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. […]

Management, 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 […]

Growth, 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. […]

Management, 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 […]

Expertise, Management, Managing People, 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 […]

Management, Managing People, Roles

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