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"Motivating Your Lawyers: Do Firm Leaders Have a Plan?"

This post was written by Cordell Parvin: "I was a practice group leader in my old firm. Once a month I was required to attend a meeting of practice group leaders and office managing partners. I rarely thought what we covered was valuable. For the most part we talked about economics and how we were doing financially. We did not brainstorm ideas on how we could better lead and motivate our lawyers, which in the end would make us more valuable to clients and more profitable.

In his book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?  Seth Godin references a poll of 20,000 creative professionals done by Richard Florida. He gave the professionals 38 factors to choose from on what motivated them at work. Here are the top ten ranked in order..."

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Source: Law Consulting Blog, 22 April 2010. © 2010, Cordell Parvin LLC. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 23, 2010 (boomark / email).