456. AMMA — Why It’s Your Fault If Your Team Isn’t Performing

The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

Michael Mogill

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

5.0 • 539 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

What if the reason problems keep reaching you at DEFCON 1 is not your team's competence, but your rules of engagement? In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael and Jessica Mogill respond to three questions that hit a nerve with many firm owners: why problems keep getting escalated late, why team performance can feel inconsistent from week to week, and why meetings sometimes turn into silence instead of collaboration. This conversation is about the leadership signals you may be sending without realizing it, and how small adjustments can change the way your team communicates, performs, and contributes. Here's what you'll learn: How to define escalation criteria so you hear about the right issues earlier, without becoming the bottleneck Why emotional consistency from leadership affects performance more than motivation does A simple way to structure meetings so every person contributes, not just the most outspoken If you want a team that operates with urgency and ownership (without waiting for a crisis), this is your playbook. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:02:46) Respect for the Work Behind Success (00:04:34) One Year to Become Competent, Decades to Become Elite (00:08:41) Q1: Why You Hear About Problems Too Late (00:10:32) Define Escalation Criteria (Rules of Engagement) (00:11:38) Q2: Inconsistent Team Performance and Emotional Leadership (00:12:40) "Monday Mogill" and Leadership Whiplash (00:12:50) Composure, Judgment, and Not Carrying Stress Forward (00:17:48) Breathwork and Not Making Decisions While Reactive (00:19:08) Q3: Why Meetings Get Blank Stares (00:22:12) Invite Pushback (00:22:25) Wrap Up Links & Resources: 'Smile, or You're Doing It Wrong' Andy Glaze Jocko Willink Learn what sustainable growth can look like for your firm at crispcoach.com. 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: 455. From Addict to UltraRunner: The Ultimate Redemption Arc with Andy Glaze 375. AMMA - Stop Being The Bottleneck: Lead Your Firm Without Being Needed 284. AMMA - Elevate Your Leadership with Emotional Intelligence

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0:00.0	that's kind of the problems you deal with as a CEO you don't deal with the easy stuff you deal
0:07.4	with the stuff that nobody else could figure out that's why it got to you and now you have to deal
0:10.7	with the most disgusting problems imaginable i'm michael mogul founder and cio of, the nation's number one law from growth company.
0:23.6	I've built my business through practice, not theory.
0:26.6	Crisp started with just $500 to my name and has grown to over eight figures in revenue over the last few years,
0:31.6	earning a spot on the Inc 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America.
0:36.6	Our approach has been to take everything we've learned about generating massive growth
0:40.0	within our own organization and help the country's most ambitious and committed law
0:43.8	from owners do the same for theirs.
0:45.7	In each episode of this podcast, I sit down with innovative market leaders from the legal
0:49.4	industry and beyond to learn from those who thrive in the face of adversity, challenge
0:53.7	the status quo,
0:54.8	and define what it means to be a true game changer.
0:58.3	This is Jessica, head of coaching strategy at Chris, and today we're flipping the script
1:02.6	for another special edition episode to get Michael's take on, strategies for surfacing operational
1:08.2	issues before they become full-blown crises, the impact of
1:11.6	leadership emotional transparency on your team's consistency, and how to identify the root
1:16.6	causes of silence and lack of engagement during team meetings.
1:19.9	I think the best way to look at it is instead of saying, hey, does anybody have any ideas
1:24.1	or putting people on the spot or saying, what do you guys think? Instead, I would change
1:27.3	the format of the meeting to basically be like, okay, well, everyone come prepared when we do this
1:31.2	part to be able to share one insight, one example, and you actually make it part of the meeting itself.
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