The Russian writer Tolstoy said all happy families are alike. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
In bringing people into your firm does personality sway your decision materially? How do you search for features such as initiative, lone individualistic mentality, leadership?
In the happy event that you have an idea of the kind of people you want and you then get the right team on your bus there is still the drama of getting different people to go in the same direction.
The obvious answer is cash but how many teams are working on 100% and are thriving at work? It is very distressing when a chap can perform at Olympic gold level if he punches it and all he ever does is lounge all over the firm every month.
Since you have a great law firm to build this is your problem and one way to solve it is to carefully define who should be on the bus and who to invite off the bus.
You may say you want team players and for people to cooperate but what if this is just an association of chaps who cannot get stuff done and use the teamwork as a cover.
Putting it plainly, would you rather have one star team member who pulls a sizable book of business and produces ideas and pushes them through to success with the other guys basically tagging along?
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