Five Year Plan Every Day

Real law firm clients take me beyond the academic into the practical and real. One of the founding partners of a highly specialized boutique law firm uttered these words in a strategy meeting this weekend “five year plan every day”. This is an extremely vital illustration of dynamic planning.…

This is a quote of Craig Barrett, the chief executive of Intel, in three time Pullitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman’s column in the New York Times yesterday.

Friedman goes on to say that

“[Intel] can now hire the best brain talent “wherever it resides.”

Food for thought: After you read Friedman’s full article,…

DuPont Legal recently announced that it is honoring Kilpatrick Stockton LLP as one of a select number of firms receiving this year’s “Meeting the Challenge” award, according to dBusiness News in Atlanta, but why? Here’s a clue:

In particular, Kilpatrick Stockton is acknowledged for its: * Outstanding legal services and results in all areas

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The Art of War Blog has used a stimulating phrase “fail forward” in their recent blog entitled What We Know and What We Don’t.

“The science of strategy is based on a simple fact: we only know the tiniest fraction of what there is to know. This is true both of us as individuals…