Episode 472 — AMMA — The Truth About Operations and the People Who Run Them
The work that drains you isn’t a discipline problem. It’s a sign you’ve been ignoring.
In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael and Jessica Mogill dig into what happens when a firm owner’s instincts no longer match what the business actually needs. Michael makes the case that the parts of the work you dread, the growth you can’t seem to unlock, and the partner you keep clashing with are all pointing at the same thing: a truth about how you’re built that you’ve been working around instead of working with.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How to tell whether you’re a visionary or an integrator, and why forcing yourself to be both will burn you out
- When optimizing a business that already works stops paying off, and what to do to actually grow it
- How to keep a partnership from breaking when you and your partner no longer share the same appetite for risk
Stop white-knuckling the parts of your business that drain you and start building toward the version that doesn’t.
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Show Notes:
Early on, there’s no opting out of the hard parts. “You can’t just say, starting the business, I’m a visionary, so we’re not going to do all the things that the business needs. The work still has to get done.”
Doing work that energizes you is earned, not given. “It is a privilege later on to be able to focus on the activities that are your strengths and the ones that give you energy, but it can take some time to be able to get there.”
Growth often requires being deliberately inefficient first. “Sometimes you have to be very inefficient for a certain period of time before you can then focus on efficiency.”
Alignment matters more than agreement. “There’s a big difference between that, because you can disagree and commit.”
Indecision is the real killer. “The stalemates are worse because they feel like no decision is made. No decision is a decision.”
The whole job of a partnership is reducing friction in decisions. “The goal should be that we as a firm should be able to make decisions as quickly as possible with the least amount of friction.”
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