In a recent Edge International Survey on Strategic Planning, we learned the following: 10% of firms have a strategy to remain flexible and opportunistic (“OK!”) 13% of firms are in the process of preparing a strategic plan (“We believe you!”) 15% of firms have a strategic plan but have not committed it to writing (“Oh
Law Firms as “Exclusive Clubs for White Men”
Is Diversity on your management agenda? Has it ever been?
This is a serious wake up call to every single member of your law firm’s management team.
Diversity is not some do-good-philanthropic-topic for a tea party of the rich and bored. Diversity is serious business: serious to business; serious for business not to mention that
Edge International Review Winter 2005 edition
The Winter 2005 edition of our quarterly magazine, Edge International Review, is now available for downloading as a PDF. This is a full color 40 page magazine so may takle a few minutes to download. (Some browsers will display the magazine without downloading it.) Senior management team members in law firms may request a complimentary
Innovaction Awards Deadline extended to July 13
DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR INNOVACTION AWARD ENTRIES TO JULY 13 (so I take the liberty of posting on these awards again). At Edge International, we are very proud of our Innovaction Awards that we produce in concert with The College of Law Practice Management. 
Awards (by firm size) will be presented in four categories:
“Commitment and Doubt”
Commitment does not require the absence of doubt; often commitment means acting despite your doubt.
From Larry Anderson’s One Sentence Journal June 17 entry.
FAST FORWARD: I believe this insight can be extremely powerful in managing law firms, or any professional service firms for that matter. Bright people are constantly analyzing because that is what
I am in very good company – Seth Godin and I share a hero: Tom Peters
Just have a look at Seth’s post today: “Thirty seconds”
“Top law firms lean towards flotation”
I believe this is the most important story in the legal profession in your lifetime, even if you are a centenarian. It redefines the debate as to whether law is a profession or a business. According to today’s Financial Times UK edition,
“One in 10 of the 100 biggest law firms have indicated they
Law Firms and Fantasies
Fantasies, Dreams & Goals
A fantasy is something you love to think about but you don’t expect to happen. A dream is something you believe might happen, some day. A goal is something you’re committed to make happen, supported by an action plan you are implementing. (from today’s One Sentence Journal by Larry Anderson)
Leadership or Management (Lion or Lamb)?
Bruce MacEwan, in his blog, Adam Smith, Esq., posted a fascinating question yesterday: Is Leadership Management?
It’s worth your time to read both Bruce’s commentary and access the Harvard Business School article he references: Great Managers Understand Their People
Food for thought: In most law firms today, the Managing Partner does not have the authority
Law Firm Leaders – Death Row – Blink or else!
Predict death with 90% accuracy without facts? According to an article on April 27 in the Christian Science Monitor, titled “Using Software to Model Death Row Outcomes”:
… an artificial neural network managed to… predict with more than 90 percent accuracy who would be executed.
What some observers find alarming about the outcome is that