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Matt Homann
CEO of LexTHINK
Matt is a lawyer, mediator, blogger, and entrepreneur who's an
innovative and passionate thinker about changing the practice of law in
ways that benefit both lawyers and clients. His company is LexTHINK, Innovation: For Lawyers. Matt has been an idea
generator his entire life and shares his views at his award-winning
blog, the [non]billable hour.
Matt says that law schools teach their students to be law professors
rather than lawyers, and works to provide guidance and insight about
what it's really like to practice law. Matt is a great example of using
Personal Brilliance in a very targeted way. His work is transferable to
many different industries and situations.
As a
facilitator of conferences, retreats, and brainstorming workshops, he teaches
people to tap into their own creative reserves, see things a different way and
make dramatic improvements. He’s worked with both large and small law firms, as
well as with large organizations including McDonald’s, Microsoft, HP. British
Petroleum, and the U.S. Marine Corps.
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews CEO of LexTHINK Matt Homann, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Awareness in his successful life. Jim Canterucci has some tips on Awareness for you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- Think, learn, care, and do
- The most innovative thing happening in the legal profession
- Billing by the hour???
- The practice of law is the same as most other businesses
- Taking lessons from other industries
- Awareness - know what you're in for
- Dealing with the glammorized views
- Online connections help prepare lawyers better going in
- A different kind of retreat
- If you were a consultant, what suggestions would you make?
- A daily exercise
Interact with both Matt and Jim with your questions. Click here and comment on the blog post.
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews CEO of LexTHINK Matt Homann, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Curiosity in his successful life. Jim Canterucci has some tips on Curiosity for you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- Curiosity as a driver
- Being the village idiot
- Turning the lens inward
- It depends
- Fighting a precedent based profession
- Is change a natural part of your business?
- Incrementalism can be a barrier
- The TV lawyer
- Curiosity and preparation
- Why am I doing this right now?
Interact with both Matt and Jim with your questions. Click here and comment on the blog post.
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews CEO of LexTHINK Matt Homann, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Focus in his successful life. Jim Canterucci has some tips on Focus for you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- Know your capacity for attention at any point in time
- How can I use what I'm thinking about now to help improve other areas of my life?
- The power of the Personal Brilliance Notebook
- Listening to ourselves
- Comfort with silence
- Be quiet
- Slowing down the process
- The Big notepad
- Wandering aimlessly
- Tell your face
Interact with both Matt and Jim with your questions. Click here and comment on the blog post.
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews CEO of LexTHINK Matt Homann, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Initiative in his successful life. Jim Canterucci has some tips on Initiative for you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- Set aside time to 'do' things
- A task accomplishment buddy
- Setting the timer - the 40/20 formula
- The curse of almost done
- Mistake - equate working on a task with doing a task
- Just do the things that are close to being done
- What wakes you up at night? Let this guide your actions
- The method of how we bill impacts initiative
- Time does not equal value
- Allow yourself to be brilliant via the structure you create
- Overwhelmed? It isn't a matter of having too much to do but rather a matter of having too many of the wrong things to do
- Firing clients
- Improving a team by keeping people off the team
Interact with both Matt and Jim with your questions. Click here and comment on the blog post.
This is the complete Matt Homann Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical interview with Jim Canterucci.
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