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Do You Know Who Holds Your Office Together?

Harvard Business Review

As Wharton professor Adam Grant put it in a recent New York Times editorial, “[w]hen friends work together they’re more trusting and committed to one another’s successes. million in decreased attrition, absenteeism, and overtime, it also drove a $2 million profit increase and 34% jump in highly satisfied customers.

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Law Firms’ Grueling Hours Are Turning Defectors into Competitors

Harvard Business Review

We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. Counsel on Call was worth nearly $50 million as of 2013 , with over 900 lawyers; it serves one-third of the Fortune 100. But that’s just not true.