Part II Building the Foundation of Positive Law Firms

• Library: Positive Professionals: Creating High-Performing Profitable Firms Through Engagement (ABA) (2017 Ed.)

Let's say you want to design the best law firm on earth to work for. What would it look like? Although change is hard, firms are capable of becoming better than they are. And thinking about what "might be" generates images of realistic opportunities that can become action plans for development. The question is an important one because our images of the future guide current behavior (Cooperrider, 2012).

In a study published in the Harvard Business Review, two business professors sought to create such...