Insights

Laura shares updates about her research into professional organizations.

Interview at Oxford Business Book Festival

Stefan Stern interviewed me about my latest book, my career, and how I do my research. Our interview was recorded as a podcast.

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How to lead your fellow rainmakers

I analyse highly successful (and unsuccessful) leaders and outline five principles for leading professional service firms.

Update: Will the Big Four really eat Big Law’s lunch?

Read two recent interviews with me for American Lawyer and Thomson Reuters. What can Big Law learn from the Big Four and how worried should they be?

Professions at risk

As the traditional professions face new challenges to their status and legitimacy, in this podcast I ask: is it time to rethink what it means to be a professional?

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Insecure overachievers on the record

Senior professionals speak frankly to me on my BBC Radio 4 documentary about insecurity, the ‘drug’ of achievement, the mental health costs, and the way ahead.

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Waiting for the Golden Ticket

Why para professionals can feel 'trapped'. Read my article for Harvard Law School's The Practice.

What does it mean to be a professional?

Should professional service firms ditch their grandiose purpose statements and reconnect with a more profound commitment to what it means to be a professional?

Podcast from New York launch of Leading Professionals

Oxford University Press interviewed me about my research, how I do it and why I wrote the book.

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If you’re so successful, why are you still working 70 hours a week?

In my recent Harvard Business Review article I discuss overwork, insecurity, and social control in professional organizations.

Governing the ungovernable

I discuss the key themes of my latest book, Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima donnas, in Legal Business.

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