The Husch Blackwell Story - It's Not that Chair-Elect Is 46 Years Young

 Joe Glynias is the chair elect at law firm Husch Blackwell. He is 46 years young and that age is headlined in Abovethelaw. However, it's not that young. 

Over at Brown Rudnick, which successfully represented Johnny Depp, Vincent Gugliemotti had been 41 when he became its head, the title being CEO. And at Paul, Weiss Brad Karp had been voted in as chair by the partners when he was 48 (at 63 Karp is still there chairing).

The story here is not youth. It's that Husch Blackwell also now has as its CEO a non-lawyer. That's a first for that kind of law firm. And it's Jamie Lawless. That might be a smart development in the dog-fight world of law firms for everything from new business to blockbuster branding to preventing partner/client flight. Often lawyers are not that astute about business per se, just their little aspect of it when operating their practices such as M&A. 

Anyway, the youth-anything announcement is getting long in the tooth. Just as is the working beyond-65 article. 

The focus has shifted to what are you able to pull off now to avoid your organization's slipping or speeding into a downward trajectory amid such chaos. And grow. Often, being well-connected as has been 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki won't cut it. The Wall Street Journal chronicles the business' fall from a $6 billion valuation to nearly zero. The game is different. It is relentless in its ongoing mutations. After being voted back in by the partners in May 2023, Paul, Weiss' Karp is unleashing atypical strategies for that particular law firm. 

In addition, the global business mindset is looped into catastrophe. No one cares that OpenAI's Sam Altman is 38. The obsessive interest is about 1) Will his innovations destroy the human race and 2) How many jobs and indeed whole operational functions will be eliminated.

Marketers and those types continue to play in age-related sandboxes. And, sure, as a coach I continue to alert employees heading toward 50 about the peril of being at a high salary currently and therefore targeted for being forced out. 

But, otherwise, the intersecting force fields are too intense and with too many impacts to fixate as we once had been on the age of the players. There's more. We can participate well into our late 90s.  

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