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For firm leadership

Most firms do not choose a growth strategy. They accumulate one.

A partner at a time, because someone became available or a market got mentioned in a meeting. There are five moves a firm can make, and the useful part is never the move. It is what the move costs you.

Seven questions, one at a time. It takes about a minute, nothing is sent anywhere, and the answer is sometimes that you should not run a search at all.

Start the seven questionsNothing is sent anywhere

  1. 01Are you turning work away, or referring it out?
  2. 02Has a client asked you to be somewhere you are not?
  3. 03How much of your revenue sits with your three largest originators?
  4. 04When do those originators retire?
  5. 05What horizon is leadership actually planning against?
  6. 06Could leadership give two years of attention to something structural?
  7. 07Are your strongest practices genuinely defensible against a larger firm?


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Nothing here is sent anywhere. The seven questions run in your browser, and your answers only leave it if you ask us for the plan.

Take it to your partners

The whole thing, with your firm on it.

Everything above is yours already. This is the same reading as a document you can put in front of the people who decide.

  • What we would not do, and why it is wrong for you
  • The first ninety days, and the year after that
  • Three questions for your partners, written for your move
  • What this cannot see, and where a real conversation starts
  • A copy by email you can forward, and a clean PDF

We use your details to send the plan and to reply if you want a conversation. Nothing else, and no mailing list.

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The conversation worth having

Bring us the decision, not just the job.

If two of those options are genuinely live for your firm, that is the conversation. We have no position to defend and no seat in your partnership. Sometimes the conversation ends in a decision not to run a search, and we will say so.

Talk it through How the consulting works

Every conversation is confidential. Your firm’s name does not enter the market before you decide it should.

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