If your firm is puzzling over conversations about business development, inclusion, mental health in the work place, succession, stability or any aspect of how to grow, consider that this might be a sign that critical areas of your organization may not be aligned.
Not that these topics aren’t challenging. Indeed, each calls for the best a leader or leadership team can bring to the table.
But if you’re having trouble addressing these challenges, the elements essential to a highly functioning organization are either missing or out of alignment. As a result, the pressure on productivity, profitability and stability is likely to intensify.
An uncertain marketplace only adds to the pressure.
Continue Reading Why Leaders Should Focus On A Set Of Guiding Principles
There are at least a hundred things a week that will wind up on the desk of every leader. Maybe a hundred every day.
(This is an update to a 
When things don’t change, there is typically one reason.
If your firm is puzzling over conversations like inclusion, mental health in the work place,
If your firm is like most, the pursuit of lateral partners is a critical piece
In 2001 
Title, office location or size, number of direct reports and not even hiring and firing