Passion, People and Principles
This blog is written by David Maister, a consultant and speaker on the management of professional service firms. His blog has posts and podcasts on his expertise; strategies that aid in managing a law firm on both a large scale and a day-to-day basis.
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Farewell and Thanks
After nearly 30 years of advising and writing about professional services, I have decided to retire. I no longer plan to consult, speak or write.A wonderful way to mark this decision happened last month (December 2009) when the Association of Management Consulting Firms awarded me its Carl S....
Suspension of Blog
I’m going to stop blogging for a while – at least taking the summer off.If you’d like to be notified if and when I return to regular blogging, just add your name to my email list (www.davidmaister.com/subscriptions ) and I’ll send you an email.I’m going to continue...
Being a Happy and Successful Lawyer
Stephen C. Ellis is the managing partner at the law firm of Tucker, Ellis & West.What follows is the commencement address he gave at Case Western reserve School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio on May 19, 2008. The title of his remarks is "On Being a Happy(and Successful) Lawyer"*** Thank you Dean...
Strategy and The Fat Smoker - New podcast episode available now
The eleventh episode of my new podcast series, Strategy and the Fat Smoker, is now live and available for download.The series is dedicated to exploring the themes found in my new book by the same name. Each chapter will be accompanied by an executive summary ebook covering the same material. I...
Escape from Corporate America
Pamela Skillings has written a fun AND serious book called “ESCAPE from CORPORATE AMERICA: a practical guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams.”Here are some of the lists from the book:The Benefits Of Corporate Jobs Steady...
Strategy and The Fat Smoker - New podcast episode available now
The eleventh episode of my new podcast series, Strategy and the Fat Smoker, is now live and available for download.The series is dedicated to exploring the themes found in my new book by the same name. Each chapter will be accompanied by an executive summary ebook covering the same material. I...
Clients as friends as Clients
Daniel F. Hunter, Special Counsel at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York has posed the following questions:1) Should friends become clients? I am often afraid to ask friends for legal work because it might "taint" our friendship and make me feel like a service provider any time I go over...
Strategy and The Fat Smoker - New podcast episode available now
The tenth episode of my new podcast series, Strategy and the Fat Smoker, is now live and available for download.The series is dedicated to exploring the themes found in my new book by the same name. Each chapter will be accompanied by an executive summary ebook covering the same material. I...
Blogging
Linas Simonis has just published an e-book called "The New Rules of Business Blogs." You can find it on www.positioningstrategy.com
The indecisive employee
A reader from Russia wrote in with this:After reading Strategy and the Fat Smoker, I made a research in our company to find out the types of people who work with me. It was very positive because I found out that we have: 75% of employees with long term and team motivation15% - wolf pack5% -...
