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It’s hard to believe it has been three years since we introduced Managing Partner Bootcamp! In that time, we’ve hosted it in three cities and two countries, supported two alliances, and welcomed leaders from as far away as Australia and Hong Kong. Firm revenues of participating firms have varied from…

What is the number one priority in your firm? If you say your clients, we’ll say you’re wrong.  Firms spend too much time focusing on business development and books of business. While it’s understandable to be concerned about the future, it’s not enough to be overly focused on the bottom line…

Three Lessons That I Learned Through My Mistakes I never set out to be an entrepreneur. Initially, I wanted to be a physician. Then, three years into college, I changed my major to accounting. I was following in my father’s footsteps for a safe, predictable career. It wasn’t until I assumed…

The general rule in business is that in order to sell something, it first has to be yours to sell. Gary Shamis once found himself working on a transaction in which that wasn’t the case. “This individual was selling a group of businesses and he included this business in which…

Whether I was managing a five-person accounting firm or leading 500 professionals in a multi-office consulting corporation, one threat loomed that always gave me cause for concern: employee turnover. I recognized early on that retaining talent needed to be a leadership priority. As a result, we invested in developing a…

We all pride ourselves on providing exceptional customer/client service, that is, giving a level of service to a customer after a transaction has taken place.  But a new term has been entering the corporate lexicon and it’s a good one. Be forewarned, however. It isn’t a buzzword. It’s a differentiator!  Customer experience is disrupting…

COURTESY OF WEIK FITNESS What advice would you give someone who is thinking about starting their own business? Gary Shamis: I have a lot of advice for burgeoning entrepreneurs, which is one of the reasons I wrote Building Blocks. These are three that I consider more general, but necessary attributes for…

For me, that book was the Turbocharged Company: Igniting Your Business to Soar Ahead of the Competition by Larry Goddard and David Brown. That was thirty years ago. I had a revelation while reading that book and subsequently implemented verticals within the firm, a hugely successful approach to growing the…

The success of my leadership role has been contingent on many things, one of them being my knowledge of people. Whether employees, referrals, clients, or community contacts, the fact that I remember personal information about them was — and continues to be — critical to growing and developing these relationships. …