The image above is the core of the post of internet phenom, Rajesh Setty, in his post today at Life Beyond Code: Optimists and Pessimists – The big difference is..
Couple that with the wisdom of lawyer and legal profession provocateur, Patrick Lamb, in his post today: Silver Lining in Black Economic Cloud? in which
Managing Partners, you may have a disaster plan for fire, perhaps for terrorism – do you have one for the economic train coming off the tracks?
Listen (and watch) what Greenspan said yesterday Sept 14th (50 seconds)
Punchline: You are getting fair warning – are you acting on it? This is not a time
Many of my law firm clients tell me that one of their biggest "people" problems is that some people just don’t work well with others – why? because they don’t always get along.
Enter a brilliant post by Marelisa Fabrega (lawyer/blogger/woman-extraordinaire) called 30 Tips for Getting Along With Others
You might want to get Marelisa’s
Americans!! You are the only ones who can participate in your upcoming election so on behalf of foreigners like me, (in my case, a proud Canadian living in Anguilla, British West Indies) PLEASE get involved and please vote. The higher the turnout, the more those of us who are not Americans can respect your outcome.
Britain is facing “arguably the worst” economic downturn in 60 years which will be “more profound and long-lasting” than people had expected, Alistair Darling, the chancellor, tells the Guardian today in a story called: Economy at 60-year low, says Darling. And it will get worse
Wall Street returns from vacation season to enter what is
RainToday.com created a special report from 12 experts in pricing professional services, including, I am honoured to say, yours truly. You can download my article:
"Think of Services in Terms of Value – Not Rates" by Gerry Riskin (author: The Successful Lawyer)
or download the entire 39 page report including all 12 articles by visiting RainToday.com
Law Professor William D. Henderson (click on photo for bio)
Managing Partners and law firm H.R. Executives should contemplate the meaning of Indiana University School of Law’s Prof. Bill Henderson’s post: "How the ‘Cravath System’ Created the Bi-Modal Distribution."
Professor Henderson builds on the work of NALP (The National Association for Law
Stephanie West Allen breaks a story that we will look back on in ten years as groundbreaking. Have a look (click on the image for Stephanie’s post):
PUNCHLINE: I can relate having lived in a virtual world for many years. Lawyers in most firms seem to resist the virtual world in favour of the comfort
What is your initial reaction to the title of this blog post? I thought it was daft… until I read the complete post by Susan Cramm on June 25, 2008 on her Harvard Business Blog: Having IT Your Way.
Here is an excerpt from her blog post:
Over the past decade, IT organizations have worked
http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1056137&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1Tom Peters on the Definition of Leadership from Tom Peters on Vimeo.
Whether you are Firm Chair, Managing Parter, Practice Group Leader, Industry Group Leader or Client Team Leader, I believe 3 minutes and 53 seconds will prove a useful catalyst for your thought.
