Sublime

The Need-for-Speed Pattern

strengths.

trusting respect goes both ways in relationships.

Another managing partner, well informed about a variety of professions, observes that “professional service firms are managed in one of two ways: badly or not at all.”

Equity:

I have no academic credibility or credentials to indicate I should counsel people on how to live their lives. I’ve had several businesses fail, was divorced by thirty-four, and recently had the most successful venture capitalist in history contact the partners at General Catalyst—my backers at L2—to discourage them (no joke) from investing in L2 be

fee sensitivity would require that engagements be staffed at the most junior level possible, including maximum possible use of paraprofessionals and increasing use of technology to substitute for professional labor. Fee pressures would…

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