387. AMMA — Stop Cleaning Up Their Mess: The Secret to a Self-Sufficient Team

The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

Michael Mogill

Business, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing

5.0 • 539 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

You didn’t build a business to become a full-time babysitter. So why are you still cleaning up your team’s mistakes? In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael and Jessica Mogill tackle one of the most frustrating growth blockers law firm owners face: a team that can’t seem to operate without you. If you’re constantly redoing work, stepping in to fix repeated mistakes, or avoiding hard conversations to keep the peace, this conversation will show you how to shift from micromanaging to building a truly self-sufficient team. Here’s what you’ll learn: Why repeated mistakes are a sign of poor leadership, not just poor performance The real cost of being the good guy How to coach your team without doing their job for them If you want to scale, you have to stop saving everyone. It’s time to lead like a coach, not a crutch. ---- 00:00 — Intro: Why your team’s growth depends on your leadership, not your workload 07:49 — Delegation gone wrong: When you assign a task but end up redoing it 10:47 — If they keep making the same mistake, it’s no longer a mistake 12:04 — Weaponized incompetence: Are they failing on purpose so you’ll fix it? 12:51 — The 1-3-1 Rule: A tool to stop doing all the thinking for your team 13:38 — “You’re babysitting grown adults”: How to break the cycle 16:45 — Why protecting their feelings is sabotaging your firm 18:41 — Stop trying to be liked: Leadership means having the hard conversations ---- Links & Resources: Weaponized Incompetence 1-3-1 Method for Delegation Murph Workout – Official Description Previous Game Changing Attorney Podcast Episode 381. AMMA — The Hardest Mindset Shift for Law Firm Owners to Make ---- Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. ---- Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O’Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. ---- If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: 381. AMMA — The Hardest Mindset Shift for Law Firm Owners to Make 317. AMMA — Crushing Mediocrity: The Art of Setting and Meeting Higher Expectations 210. AMMA — Failure Isn’t Final: Lessons Learned From Setbacks and Struggles

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0:00.0	Are you setting clear expectations of what it is that you want?
0:06.0	Because if it's coming back to you wrong, then maybe someone doesn't have an idea of what great looks like.
0:17.4	I'm Michael Mogul, founder and CEO of Crisp, the nation's number one law from growth company.
0:22.2	I've built my business through practice, not theory.
0:25.0	Crisp started with just $500 to my name and has grown to over eight figures in revenue over the last few years,
0:30.3	earning a spot on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America.
0:34.7	Our approach has been to take everything we've learned about generating massive growth within our own organization and help the country's most ambitious and committed
0:41.6	in law firm owners do the same for theirs. In each episode of this podcast, I sit down with
0:45.9	innovative market leaders from the legal industry and beyond to learn from those who thrive
0:50.3	in the face of adversity, challenge the status quo, and define what it means to be a true
0:54.6	game changer. This is Jessica, head of coaching strategy at Chris, and today we're flipping the
1:00.3	script for another special edition episode to get Michael's take on, why you keep failing at delegation,
1:06.6	the difference between developing people and babysitting adults, and how being nice to your team is actually the cruelest thing you can do.
1:13.5	By avoiding that type of conversation, you're not just hurting yourself.
1:17.5	You're hurting the person who doesn't have the ability.
1:19.6	They don't even know what they're doing wrong and you don't empower them with the ability to improve.
1:25.4	That's coming up on the Game Changing Attorney podcast.
1:37.4	All right.
1:38.4	Another one, Michael.
1:40.4	We back again.
1:41.8	Always.
1:42.9	DJ.
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