Happy New Year may 2006 surpass even your wildest dreams.
Up Close and Personal
Wishing You a Happy and Peaceful Holiday
Greetings from our largest parrot, Pekoe, from our home in Anguilla, British West Indies, who joins all of the Riskins in wishing you a Happy Holiday and wonderful 2006.
(Pekoe is an Orange Moluccan Cockatoo standing on the rail on our front porch with St Martin and St Bart’s behind in the distance… when you…
Bruce MacEwen can even make a looming strike fascinating.
Bruce MacEwen (of Adam Smith Esq. fame) has one of the most valuable blogs on the blogosphere if we measure that objectively based on its (richly deserved) popularity Bruce shines a light on the looming New York Subway strike in his post: Limits to Capitalism: The New York City Subways and When Public Benefits Private…
You = Your Calendar
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
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Bruce W. Marcus Joins with Bay Street Group LLC
Bruce W. Marcus Congratulations to Bay Street Group LLC for bringing a legend on board. For fill particulars, read President Rick Telberg’s post. Click here for more information on Bruce Marcus.
Partner Mandi Fleiser turbo charges Grant Thornton’s “esprit de corps”!
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…
Thank you Bruce Marcus for Reviewing The Successful Lawyer
Thank you to Bruce Marcus of The Marcus Letter fame for publishing a review of my latest book, The Successful Lawyer. Look at his home page for heading
NEW IMPROVING THE BREED How To Really Succeed At Practicing Law. Gerald Riskin tells you how in his new book.
It is an honour that he…
PINCH ME: From China via Google via Tom Peters to you
Thank you Tom Peters for this most delicious story
White House conducts ethics classes for staff If the irony of this story appearing in a Chinese publication isn’t obvious for you, you may need sensitivity training, or heaven forbid, ethics classes? Can it be true that recent Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers was one of…
Who is Bruce W. Marcus?
If you already know the answer to this question, then you probably revere the man.
The humble answer to “Who is Bruce Marcus” can be found at his website. You may know hime from his latest books:
Perhaps to best describe him, I might liken him to another mere mortal:
PUNCHLINE: Bruce has been around…
Want to win a bar bet?
Instruction manual for winning bet after bet: 1) Print a wallet-sized copy of this photograph.
2) Laminate it – this has to look good after many many viewings. 3) Wait until a colleague from your law firm finishes their 2nd beer at your after-work watering hole. 4) Tell them if they can correctly guess the…

