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Don't just produce results, unleash potential.
Radical disruption in the legal sector has meant increased pressure on lawyers to be strategic business enablers and innovators. Today, leaders of law firms and legal functions must steer change more effectively to create client-centric solutions for the businesses they serve. But this requires a new set of leadership skills focused on delivering success through vision and values, purpose over profits and positive impact on people.
The Conscious Lawyer is a simple, powerful roadmap for professionals seeking a more meaningful way of leading high-performing teams through change. Discover a fresh perspective on how you can reshape your leadership to advance the future of law.
As an international lawyer, general counsel and law firm COO, Kiran Chawla Scarr has spent a global career leading transformational change in the legal sector. Widely recognized and awarded for transformative leadership, process innovation and contribution to the legal community, she is a prominent voice on the future of law.
Contents
Preface
Where it began
Why it is time to change
What it means to be a conscious lawyer
My approach
Chapter 1: Doing high performance
How we are taught to behave
How we are measured
How high performers perceive themselves
The power gap
Being the Conscious Lawyer
Chapter 2: Leading through change
The changing role of the in-house lawyer
What law firms face
The new generation of lawyers
Barriers to change
Leadership skills for leading through change
Chapter 3: Choosing I CARE
The need to be client-centric
The need to be human
How I CARE can help
LEAP I: CONNECT to the leader in you
Chapter 4: Why egos crush souls
When ego serves us
How you see yourself is not how others see you
Shades of The Dark Triad
When ego stops serving us
The Authenticity Gap
Chapter 5: Being your leadership brand
Your leadership brand
The problem with being a brand
Nourishing your brand
Chapter 6: Letting your values speak
The case for values-based leadership
Know your values
Aligning behaviour with values
Know what your values look like in action
Control your choices
Chapter 7: Taking down the mask
Finding connection to greater consciousness
Starting with submerging ego
Letting go of perfection
Finding compassion
Dealing with blind spots
Having courage to take down the mask
LEAP II: AWAKEN your purpose
Chapter 8: Why results limit us
Competition is scarcity mindset
Abundance is limitless
Resentment in past limits our future self
Detach yourself from results
Chapter 9: Shifting your mindset from results to impact
What fixed mindset looks like
What holds us back
What frees us
Moving into growth mindset
Believe in impact
Chapter 10: Choosing greater impact
Go in search of purpose
Focus on process not destination
Being prepared to fail
Chapter 11: Focusing on experience every day
Using flow to deliver outcomes
All we have is the present moment
Letting your thinking get in the way
LEAP III: RELATE to the people around you
Chapter 12: Why impact on people matters
Awareness of impact
Impact on people
The cost of impact
Shift to sphere of influence
Harnessing potential
Chapter 13: Being the Conscious Lawyer
Choosing conscious leadership
Identifying a conscious lawyer
From results to people
From profits to purpose
The state of being rather than doing
Chapter 14: Transforming your impact
Motivating the new generation
Transforming the experience
From tasks to flow activities
From outcome to process
LEAP IV: ENTRUST others to fulfil their potential
Chapter 15: Why trust matters
The problem with fixed mindset
Without trust, there is no leadership
What builds trust in the workplace
How growth mindset allows trust
Chapter 16: Making learning your success criteria
Why inclusion matters
Harnessing collective wisdom
Making room for growth
Mentor a shift to growth mindset
Chapter 17: Creating change leaders of the future
Whose potential do you own?
Decentralise your decision-making
Less Authority, more Autonomy
Make succession your success
Chapter 18: Drawing this together
Conclusion
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
References
