Episode 476 — Why Your Lack of Ownership is Killing Your Firm
Most firm owners think they have a strategy problem. What they actually have is a standards problem.
In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael and Jessica Mogill take on three questions every growth-minded firm owner eventually faces: why a six-figure software implementation still isn’t sticking, whether to make a major hire before everything feels “ready,” and what to do when an org chart that hasn’t changed in years stops fitting the business. Michael makes the case that waiting, outsourcing, and settling for “fine” are all the same problem wearing different clothes, and that the fix starts with owning the standard yourself.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Why outsourcing leadership lets your standards slip, and how to pull them back
- How to tell the difference between being responsible and just procrastinating on a decision you’ve already made
- What it really takes to know whether your team and structure can carry you to the next level
Stop waiting for the right time, the right hire, or the right consultant to save you: this episode is your push to own the standard yourself.
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Show Notes:
A lack of urgency drains your account while the work sits unfinished. “If the business is becoming increasingly less competitive and you are funding the bill, then your account is getting drained while these people take their time.”
Your team can’t read your mind about what you expect. “If you’re frustrated it didn’t happen by a certain time or a certain way, did you ever even tell them what that timeline was? Or are you just hoping they’re reading your mind?”
Waiting for perfect conditions is just procrastination in a respectable disguise. “It’s ideal conditions, because they think, once I’ve hired this person, or once this case settles, then I’ll finally be ready. The reality is that for most people, the timing was never ideal when they had to make an important decision.”
Without a deadline, “making it better” becomes an excuse to never ship. “If you don’t put a deadline on something, someone will continue to work on it and say, well, I’m just making it better, I’m perfecting it.”
If the best word for your firm is “fine,” that’s the problem. “I would never describe my business as fine. But if fine is okay to you, then I don’t know that you need to change anything.”
Growth rarely happens with a frozen org chart. “I’ve never seen a firm grow from six to seven to eight to nine figures where the org structure did not change in a meaningful way.”
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