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Mark Powers

Mark Powers

President, Shareholder, and Practice Advisor at Atticus, a law firm coaching and practice-development firm; founder who has coached attorneys for nearly 40 years.

Aug 20, 2026

5:49
Oh, my gosh
5:49
... vent.
5:50
So he went into a coma, but nobody would've ever known that, and nobody was telling us that.
5:55
And so the l- the, obviously, the legal industry has been an important part of my life.
6:01
And, uh, I came up through the corporate world into consulting.
6:05
I was president of a, uh, small multi-million dollar company.
6:09
And because we had such an entrepreneurial family, I would help them with their businesses and talk to them about this and that.

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35:17
I mean, obviously, like, not worrying about it would be one, but as they start to try to implement this, what are some of the things they do wrong, or do they try to implement it too late? Like, explain that to me
22:10
Right
22:10
...
22:10
I want us, you and I, to get to strategies.
22:12
But I wanna say one more thing, and we can talk about strategies for dealing with them.
22:17
'Cause you're right, it can, it, it obviously, I, I, I think, I'll, I'll suggest it's more overwhelming to have these unspecified, unrecognized annoyances in my life than naming them as you did and then being able to tackle them in a strategic manner, not all at once.
22:40
So it gets, I think it gives me some peace of mind to have a name on something and know, all right, tell the truth about it.
22:46
It's a toleration, and we'll talk about fixing it.
25:26
How would you coach someone to go do a toleration sprint right now? What would you tell them to go do?

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