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Leadership for the Strong

By Silvia Coulter
September 01, 2019

To learn how to become an effective leader, one may simply visit Amazon or a good book store and find many books on the topic. Most of these books provide information that might remind us of an MBA program's professors' teachings — a lot of information which until we are in a position to really apply it or implement it is forgotten. Or we take one leadership development program from a college or a one or two-day workshop and we learn a little more.

Law firms have many leaders: office heads, practice chairs, department heads, committee chairs, professional staff, and the overall firm leader. In many cases, no formal leadership training takes place and many leaders are uninspiring and may even lack the enthusiasm to become a good leader. This leaves others in their groups or offices performing at less than optimal levels and on their own to get the job done often feeling pressured and stressed.

There are a few things that books and professors don't seem to directly address. Here are some tips to help partners who lead operational teams, offices, practices, departments, or the firm itself, to implement for leadership impact.

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