If you want to make steady, powerful improvements to your law business, in a way that's super effective and surprisingly easy, you should leverage the principle of "Kaizen." It's a Japanese business philosophy of continuously improving operations in small incremental steps. But it's also a powerful tool for solo and small law firm owners in the modern tech-driven world
Show Notes
- Atomic Habits, book by James Clear
- Loom video comparing SweetProcess to Process St.
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, book Steven Covey
- Evernote - digital dumping ground
- TextExpander - text automation tool
- Notion - online wiki/database tool
- Obsidian - new PKM tool (Mac or PC)
General Resources
- The 80/20 Principle (my email newsletter)
- The 5 Pillars of a Tech-Powered Law Practice
- The Inner Circle (an online community for law firm owners)
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