Practical Building Blocks of Strong Legal Leadership

Practical Building Blocks of Strong Legal Leadership

Our work in legal leadership confirms several fundamental axioms.

Axiom I: Great leaders are made, not born.  To be sure, we all marvel at the "naturals" - the charismatic one-of-a-kind geniuses whose inspirational, strategic and operational gifts dazzle and amaze.  Yet this is a problematic leadership model.  These naturals often cannot explain how they do what they do and therefore cannot groom protégés and successors.  Led by intuition, they may mistake impulse or personal conviction for decision-making, clarity and consistency.

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