1. Do work that means little to you.
2. Don't build your network until you are pressured to bring in business.
3. When you meet with a prospective client, maintain single-minded focus on getting the business.
4. Dominate the conversation.
5. Never visit clients unless you absolutely have to.
6. Always remember that you are the expert.
7.  Think short-term.
8. Make meeting your firm's billable requirements a higher priority than developing and serving clients.
9. Stay at a firm that requires 2400 billable hours and new business generation.
10. Continue with a firm that raises your billing rate so that it's no longer affordable for your clients.