Technology & Litigation

The ACH litigation team had its first ever (as far as I'm aware) litigation retreat this weekend, and as I reminisce on our time, I am struck by the realization that to be a successful business, you have to allow your team to envision and strive for excellence with you.  This weekend we had some great discussion and "vision-casting" on the areas of privacy litigation, Indiana probate litigation, business law, Internet litigation, banking law, SaaS litigation, and several other areas where we are already working and where we can work more, and throughout the discussions, I was struck again and again by how fantastic and forward-thinking everyone on our team is.  The moral of the story to me is that you, as a business person, have surrounded yourself with excellent people.  You need to listen to them and see where they can take your company.  It doesn't matter what "position" they have in the company because everyone has ideas.  Your goal as a manager should be to foster those ideas and push them to verbalize and realize those ideas.  Otherwise, you will achieve nothing but stagnation.  However, if you allow your team to envision with you, not only will you get some great ideas, but they will also own a piece of your business' future.  They will have a stake in your game.  Allow them to participate and purposefully embrace their ideas of the company and you can't avoid great results.