Compulsory: Add Tom Peter's Blog to your Feed
Tom Peters wrote In Search of Excellence and changed the way we look at business forever. He has written many other business best sellers since, like "Re-imagine!". (For a more thorough list, check out some of his other publications at the Wow! Store.
Most law firm leaders are too busy to read business books - OK, you can be forgiven... but at least subscribe to Tom Peter's Blog and get the benefit of some of his awesome thinking (and from a few of the people he respects).
Take a look at his blog: The Pinnacle of "Change Management" and see what I mean.
Food for Thought: Guard against the reaction that "this stuff" does not apply to law firms - that law firms are different. Instead, ask yourself, "how might this apply - what elements transcend business and apply to professional service firms?"
I believe that the prize will go to those who import ideas from outside our profession... and apply them in an imaginative way. Tom Peters can help you do that.
