defining law firm leadership
Here’s an interesting and, perhaps, daunting question for law firm leaders: If you lost your title, position and power tomorrow, would others still support you and want to work with you?
Executive coach Donna Karlin frames this inquiry in a FC Expert Blog post on defining leadership. Her question - with the commentary she offers around it - suggests that leadership is best assessed and defined by the people being led. This is the thought behind the 360-degree review process that’s become commonplace in the corporate world and is trickling in to law firms.
This point reverberates in an article from the Stanford Graduate School of Business titled It’s Not About You (tipped at Be Excellent). Reflecting on the leadership insights of former General Electric CEO Jack Welch, the piece states: “The minute you move from being a task-oriented professional to being a manager of people, it stops being about your individual talents, your successes, and starts being all about coaching, motivating, teaching, supporting, removing roadblocks, and finding resources for your employees. [ ] Too many people today think leading is exclusively about their own performance.”
For more on defining business leadership, take a look at Lisa Haneberg’s post detailing What we Want from Managers.
Executive coach Donna Karlin frames this inquiry in a FC Expert Blog post on defining leadership. Her question - with the commentary she offers around it - suggests that leadership is best assessed and defined by the people being led. This is the thought behind the 360-degree review process that’s become commonplace in the corporate world and is trickling in to law firms.
This point reverberates in an article from the Stanford Graduate School of Business titled It’s Not About You (tipped at Be Excellent). Reflecting on the leadership insights of former General Electric CEO Jack Welch, the piece states: “The minute you move from being a task-oriented professional to being a manager of people, it stops being about your individual talents, your successes, and starts being all about coaching, motivating, teaching, supporting, removing roadblocks, and finding resources for your employees. [ ] Too many people today think leading is exclusively about their own performance.”
For more on defining business leadership, take a look at Lisa Haneberg’s post detailing What we Want from Managers.
