Managing Partners start thinking of ways to harness this little philosophical gem in your firm:
Fun is not a distraction from work or a drain on our revenue; it is the very source of both our inspiration and our value. A genuine sense of play ignites our creativity, eases communication, promotes goodwill and engenders
Thank you Tom Peters for this tidbit from a post called “Stuff
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ALL THERE IS. Damn it! I keep forgetting this! Leaving it out of presentations! Namely, a PP slide that simply reads : You = Your Calendar. THIS IS MY #1 BELIEF ABOUT MANAGEMENT. Or: “You can’t bullshit your calendar.” Or: “Your
You will see the story gets all excited about Benjamin R. Civiletti, now chairman of the Venable law firm, for reaching the lofty threshhold of a $1,000 per hour hourly billing rate. If that $1,000 rate for Mr. Civiletti is serving a well conceived strategy to differentiate by being obnoxiously expensive, I fully respect that.
Mandi Fleiser If esprit de corps in your office is so fantastic that you are looking for ways to suppress it, then skip this post. However if you want to see a brilliant, simple and time efficient way of enhancing it, then treat this as a mini case study. (Esprit de corps is “a feeling
Seth Godin, puts his Stanford MBA to good use as he illustrates that this “Local Max” is probably where your law firm is right now. The pain that you would sustain at points B and C leads to the “Big Max” (below). 
If we extrapolate from Seth’s comments combined with my observations of our
Peter Drucker in his passing is all over the internet as people pay tribute to someone who did what the rest of us aspire to: make a difference. Tom Peters’s perspective on Peter Drucker is especially meaningful to me because of my regard for him and his work (yes, he also is making a
Darrell Kelley is a powerhouse and I wish him the very best at Holland & Knight. For the full story see: New COO named at one of Florida’s largest law firms 
My question is not “can Darrell Kelley manage” it is “will Holland & Knight let him”. This is in no way personal to H
For you David Maister fans, and I will include myself in that category, David has given his site a lift complete with welcoming video. You can also sign up for a notification of his articles as he publishes them. There is a wealth of knowledge and materials there. Check it out! 
After finishing a full day workshop yesterday with some major law firms, accounting firms and some other professional service firms at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) of the University or Pretoria (Johannesburg, South Africa Campus), I was reminded yet again that professionals face the same fundamental challenges regardless of geographical location.
Adam Lewis, a Director and the Managing Partner of the Australian and New Zealand practices of McKinsey & Company, was one of my co-presenters at the World Masters of Law Firm Management last week, in Sydney.
Adam told us a number of fascinating things about McKinsey, one of the premium consultancies in the world.
