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Are You a Five-Tool Player?

By Beth Cuzzone and David Freeman
November 01, 2016

Off the bat (so to speak), please excuse us if the use of sports analogy will fall on deaf ears, but for those of you who do see parallels between sports and business, we believe a law firm executive's ability to lead lawyers' potential for greatness can be evaluated using a model that is similar to baseball.

World Series season has just passed (no winner as of press time!) and there's not a better time to take lessons learned from Major League Baseball. The baseball term “five-tool player” is used to describe a player who has an array of skills across a broad spectrum. In quick summary, the five tools are: 1) Hitting for power — hit home runs; 2) Hitting for average — adapt the hitting approach to the situation in the game; 3) Speed — speed on the base paths; 4) Fielding — catch and cover wide spaces; and 5) Throwing — throw quickly and accurately.

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