Episode 436 — AMMA — The Bigger The Firm, The Bigger The Problems
Growth doesn’t solve problems. It reveals which ones you’ve been ignoring.
In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael and Jessica Mogill tackle the leadership challenges that surface as law firms scale. From decision paralysis to team dependencies, this conversation explores why bigger firms face bigger problems and what it takes to lead through them. Michael breaks down the decision-making framework elite CEOs use, why leaders must stop being the bottleneck, and how world-class execution requires being 51% right and moving fast. This episode confronts the uncomfortable truth that your leadership team might look perfect on paper but fail in practice without the right incentives, speed, and simplicity.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Why leadership teams get paralyzed and how to cut through indecision with a clear decision matrix
- How to stop training your team to depend on you and start building independent problem solvers
- Why being 51% right beats waiting for perfect information every single time
Growth amplifies your leadership gaps. The question is whether you’ll address them or let them cap your ceiling.
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Show Notes:
Complexity scales up, clarity scales down. “Your job as the leader is to take complexity and your aim is to create clarity and to simplify. It can be complex on the way up, but it should be clarity and simplicity on the way down.”
Not making a decision is making a decision. “If you have about 70% of the information, that’s enough to make a decision, because not making a decision is making the decision. Sometimes you delay things, and there’s a cost to that, the opportunity cost of not making a decision.”
World-class operators are only right 60% of the time. “As long as you’re right 51% of the time, you will get to where you’re going. Even if you’re an elite, elite, elite business operator, CEO, you’re probably world-class if you’re 60-40.”
You’re training the dog to come to you. “If they’re always coming to me and you’re always giving them the answer, then you’re training the dog to come to you so that you give them the answer.”
All human behavior can be attributed to incentives. “If Charlie Munger were here, he would say that all human behaviors in life can be attributed to the incentives.”
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