1. Constructing Your House On Solid Ground: Building An Effective Legal Team

4. What I Was Told In My Interview! Please Hold Your Laughter Until The End 9-5 Job Only Had To Worry About 1 Client Focus On The Forest, Not The Trees Part Of The Team Not Much Travel Comparable Pay Better Benefits

7. The In-House Executive, Counsel, Manager, BOD, Secretary, Etc. Chief Legal Advisor Member Of The Management Team Business Sense And Acumen Expert HR Manager And Advisor Risk Manager Productivity & Cost Expert Revenue Source vs. Cost Center Outside Counsel Supervisor Corporate Language Expert Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 Chief Compliance Officer

10. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. ~Jack Welch

13. Kevin Loughery

15. The Effective Leader 1.Upgrade The Team 2.Live & Breathe The Corporate Vision 3.Get Under Peoples Skin 4.Establish Trust 5.Make Unpopular Decisions 6.Get Questions Answered With Actions 7.Inspire Risk Taking 8.Celebrate

23. Your Teams Legal Management Go To Project Task Objective Problem Substitute

28. First Who … Then What 1.Who Teams Adapt To Changes In Direction 2.The Problem Of How To Motivate And Manage Goes Away 3.With The Wrong People, Direction And Vision Are Irrelevant

29. So, Who is Who?

30. The Acid Test

37. 3 Principles to Great Team Building

41. A boat doesnt go forward if each one is rowing their own way. ~Swahili Proverb

42. 5 Pyramidical Dysfunctions

49. The Stockdale Paradox You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. ~ Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale

50. When you turn over rocks and look at all the squiggly things underneath, you can either put the rock down or you can say my job is to turn over rocks and look at the squiggly things even if what you see scares the hell out of you. ~ Fred Purdue

51. Summary 1.Everything Starts With The Leader 2.Good Is The Enemy Of Great 3.Who Before What 4.Pre-screen Candidates And Never Settle 5.Identify And Address Common Dysfunctions 6.Confront Reality