Want To Get Ahead Try This

Developing the Next Generation of Rainmakers Want to get ahead? Try this New York Times Magazine article my friend Betsy Munnell   forwarded to me last week. It is a fairly lengthy article and well worth reading every page.  The article is about Wharton professor Adam Grant, the youngest and highest rated Wharton professor and the author of: Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success He is right. I was always motivated by helping construction contractors and I never wanted to disappoint them. Even though the article and Grant’s book was not written about lawyers or law firms, he describes three types of people I have run into in almost every law firm. Think about your own firm, do you have… Lawyers and law firms make the news when they churn bills or do other things in their own interest. That is part of the reason that in Gallup Honesty/Ethics in Professions  studies lawyers rank so low. I guess we should feel good that in the last poll we ranked above Members of Congress. We are now right between insurance sales people and state governors. The great joy I experienced practicing law, and  the joy I now experience coaching lawyers is the opportunity to help my clients and the lawyers I coach succeed. I am energized when I get home from a coaching trip. I love coaching and helping lawyers. I hope someday I can work with each of you who read my blog. Just suppose your plan for the rest of the year was to see how many clients and potential clients you can help achieve their goals without expecting anything in return. I practiced law for 37 years developing a national construction law practice representing some of the top highway and transportation construction contractors in the US.