Career Success Do What Top Olympians Do

Developing the Next Generation of Rainmakers Career Success: Do what top Olympians do Several years ago I was beginning to coach a new group of 12 lawyers at a national law firm. The week before the first session, I received a phone call from one of the firm leaders. He asked: Tom, (not his real name) is a lawyer with $5 million dollars of business annually. He has asked if you would be willing to coach him when you are in our office? I said sure and had incredible fun working with a guy who brought in more business than I ever had, but still wanted to learn more.   I thought of him at church Sunday, when our minister referred to a Huffington Post blog:  10 Reasons Why The Olympics Improves Employee Productivity. He talked about one of the 10 reasons and afterward I asked for the link above. As I read through the 10 reasons, they reminded me of the top lawyers I have coached and why they get the most out of our work together. I will share the first sentence, but I urge you to read the entire paragraph on each of the 10 reasons. If you are one of those lawyers, these points will be familiar to you. Does your firm have lawyers with these Olympian attributes? If so, I would love to work with them. I practiced law for 37 years developing a national construction law practice representing some of the top highway and transportation construction contractors in the US.