partners: when to speak up and when to shut up

sometimes the team needs to come first.

by marc rosenberg
the rosenberg practice management library

to paraphrase shakespeare: when to speak up and when to shut up – that is the question. there are times partners should speak their minds and times they should remain silent.

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a great managing partner once told me, “if you’re not building the firm, then you’re not a partner.”  this post is about two ways (there are others) that partners build the firm. first, by speaking up when your partners need to hear what you think.