Business

There is a great article in the July-August edition of the Harvard Business Review entitled The Early Bird Really Does Get the Worm.  The article summarizes a study which found a correlation between  "morning people" and career success.  This is based on a number of traits which are commonly found in morning people.  

Traits
Agreeable
Optimistic
Stable
Proactive
Conscientious
Satisfied with Life

Being a morning person, of course I loved this!  Most days I am the first in the office.  I love getting my to-do lists together early each morning and executing on the list throughout the day.  I have found this to be an extraordinarily important practice in building and managing a successful law firm.  

I have never understood evening people.  It seems that they miss out on too much and are always in reactive mode rather than proactive mode.  That creates a stressful life.  Of course that is not always true - I know many who are actually much more organized than me and run great businesses.

The study did find some positive traits of "evening people".  They tend to be more creative and intelligent than morning people.  I fully agree with those points!  The study also found that they tend to be more extroverted.  That is probably true, but I have not noticed that point to the same degree.  At any rate, those are traits that are necessary in any balanced business team.

See also:

Entrepreneurial Law - Developing a Good Business Model
Culture of Private Equity
A World of Private Equity
Rules of Funding
Entrepreneurial Law - Proof of Concept & Proof of Scale
Fatal Flaws in Leadership
Keep the Good Ideas Coming but Stay Focused
Business Law - 10 Common Negotiation Mistakes
Funding Law - Presentations to Investors
 


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