We all know that Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I think it’s worth asking why ‘Rome’, of all the great cities of antiquity, was chosen as the subject of idiom.

Now, setting aside historical-bias, my best guess for this being the case is that the level of infrastructure at the time of the phrase’s coining (1190) was well beyond anything available or imaginable.

Afterall, the “Dark Ages” earned their moniker because so much of the knowledge that “built Rome” had been lost to time, leaving people ‘in the dark’ when it came to using systems that had been put in place for centuries.

And while I’ve strayed as far into the territory of amateur historian as I feel comfortable, the reason for this though was something my guest said in his latest book:

“Until you have systems in place, you don’t have a business, you just have a job”.

If Rome wasn’t connected by all the systems they’d put in place, they’d have had a village, not a City.

My guest this week is Brian Glass.

A Personal Injury Attorney, Brian was recently named one of Virginia’s Top 40 Under 40 by the National Trial Lawyers Association, and is co-author of “Renegade Lawyer Marketing”, now in its second edition and a best-seller on Amazon.

We discuss the constantly evolving landscape of legal marketing, why being a good lawyer is only one piece of a much larger puzzle, and how the best leaders learn to celebrate other’s victories.

Enjoy the show!

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