Managing Partner Performance: Strategies for Transforming Underperforming Partners was a great joy to read as it provides great insights, contains very clear descriptions of behavior patterns and causes for partners’ underperformance and has many brilliant and practical recommendations to remedy the underperformance and to help struggling partners.
The book is very much directed at firm leaders, and quite rightly so, as many have little or no management training and skills and the book will prove immensely helpful to them. This book is equally helpful to all those partners (whether on equity level or below) and other senior lawyers who are actually struggling. It provides such a wealth of good advice that it may even be used as a “self-help” book.
But there is a third group of people that will actually greatly benefit from perusing this book – anyone in a big law firm with the goal of making partner and having a successful long-term partner career. I would like to recommend this book specifically to this latter group of partners and lawyers. They will find a wealth of information, recommendations, action lists, alternative ways of handling matters, or dealing with issues that will prove invaluable and that I wish had been available both at my transition from senior associate to partner and on moving firms.
While one may find today much help, information, and support on the internet or on social media, it is difficult to find a collection of such high-caliber experts who have authored the 20 chapters of this book and the depth that they provide in each of them. I have rarely read a book on law firms where I was not disappointed by significant parts or where whole chapters did not meet my expectations – this book is one of these rare exceptions where I thoroughly enjoyed each chapter.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book and each of its chapters to anyone interested in the workings of a big law firm.
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