Jeff Ma stresses that they are still on the journey into this transformation and that it doesn't get easier, it actually gets harder. It ultimately saved their business, and their relationships with each other. But, it turns out that this CEO, and fellow co-author of the eventual book, found the motivation to change his behavior and transform himself, and the team, so that they led with love in how they worked with each other, and with their clients. Sounds strange? Well, according to Jeff Ma and Frank Danna, co-authors of Love as a Business Strategy, they thought someone had swapped bodies with their CEO. Then a few weeks later, that toxic leader pulls the rest of the leadership team into a conference room for a "all hands on deck" meeting, where he starts the meeting by stating that he loves this team and he cares about all of them. Imagine working in a toxic workplace where you've recently laid off a third of your employees and the company is on the verge of bankruptcy. HyperDraft is providing Geek in Review podcast listeners with a complimentary month free of its document automation software Save 90% of the time drafting legal documents. Transcript available on 3 Geeks and a Law Blog This week, Susan DeMaine from Indiana University Maurer School of Law looks at the effect that inflation is having on law schools and how she and other law school professors and administrators are needing to do to stay ahead of those effects. We recorded a number of crystal ball answers at this year's American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) annual conference in Denver. It's a lesson that many entrepreneur/lawyers may want to learn before launching their own startups. That's why Tony and Sean stuck around for a few more years to learn the in's and out's of the processes before leaving to launch HyperDraft. One thing that both point out is that while the idea may be viable, a young associate really doesn't have the legal experience needed to understand the nuances involved in creating a deliverable that scales and fits the overall needs of the lawyer and the client. Along the way we ask if creativity, innovation, and producing viable commercial products like HyperDraft means that lawyers at firms have to split off from that firm? The answer is a mix of yes, no, and maybe. We talk about their journey to create a commercial product. This year his fellow BigLaw colleague, Sean Greaney joined HyperDraft as its first General Counsel. The idea that he'd been working on and developing to make his own corporate law work better, became his full-time gig and the launch of HyperDraft. So after months and years of waiting for the industry to find ways of creating a better process, and failing to actually do it, he jumped in and just did it himself. Or, as he describes himself, "aggressively lazy." Not lazy in the traditional sense, but rather lazy in the way that many of us understand that the current way of working is just wasting everyone's time, and there has to be an easier/better/faster way of doing it.
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He viewed processes more like an engineer than a lawyer and understood that there were more efficient ways to do the work, not for the sake of efficiency, but because like any good engineer, he was lazy. HyperDraft's Tony Thai knew he could produce a better method of practicing law and producing legal documents.