CHAPTER 18

Leading without Leading

Elke Rehbock

Empowering members of your team allows you to grow. Because you allow the project to be no longer entirely your own, the team can contribute and their input can improve the work processes and, ultimately, the project as a whole.

—ELKE REHBOCKDentons US LLP

Elke Rehbock is a partner in the world’s largest law firm, Dentons, where she is the cohead of the US Banking and Finance practice. She focuses on cross-border and finance transactions. I wondered how she was able to practice the dialogue language of partnership in a business typically structured hierarchically, with associates reporting to partners and partners reporting to a management. To gain some insight into this question, Elke and I discussed ...

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