During a job interview, Brett D. Soloway was asked what his goals would be in the first three months as general counsel of real estate services company DTZ. He didn’t respond with a performance metric, such as how much he could trim from the budget or even offer how he might make his mark on DTZ’s 20-lawyer global legal team. Instead, Soloway said he needed to meet the people that make up the $2 billion company that manages buildings in 52 countries. He needed to learn what the company does and how it …