Category: Management

Delegation – A key to your success

Michelle Golden has done a marvelous piece about delegation and why it is so important to increase profits, to enhance marketing and to retain capable associates. A must read!

LawBiz Tips – May 2006 edition

May 2006 Issue

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Podcasting — for useful insights

Our goal with everything we do at LawBiz is to be the first stop in your search for content of value that will help you with The Business of Law�� and improve the management of your firm. (more…)

LawBiz Tips — May’s E-Zine is published

Welcome to May’s edition of LawBizTips Electronic Magazine

If you haven’t signed up yet for our LawBiz Tips monthly e-zine, do so now and receive the May edition.

This is the line-up for May:
A.Personal Thoughts
1.Calendar
2.Pre-publication offer
3.Podcast, our latest adventure

B.Articles
1.Do your bills convey cost – or value?
2.What doth it profit a lawyer … ?
3.When money’s the game, do you know your score?

Business Success 101

Patrick J. Lamb quotes the leader of Xerox from a recent interview on NPR:

It (their new-found success) wasn’t really the brilliance of the strategy. It was the discipline of the execution that turned this company around. So I think credit where credit’s due would say it would go to the people of Xerox in terms of their combined set of actions that allowed us to execute with a great deal of discipline.

This reminds of Good to Great, the book written by Jim Collins wherein he describes today’s great corporations. The common theme among all of them was a persistence to recognize and stay with their core competencies, their values of why they were in business.

As Pat Lamb suggests, though this seems like Business Success 101, these are rare qualities.

Wearing a helmet can save your life: See the translation below

A Tennessee committee voted recently to advance a bill to the full state Senate that would allow motorcyclists older than 21 to ride without a helmet. At present, Tennessee is one of 20 states that have motorcycle helmet laws in place. Some interesting statistics have come from this debate: (more…)

Generation Gap: Women

Today’s Wall Street Journal (Moving On, Part D) discusses the differences among women in the workplace. One generation of women has difficulty understanding, mentoring and even working with women of other generations. (more…)

Diversity is a business issue

In a recent Diversity Conference of 19 major law firms which I organized, one of the primary conclusions was that the entire firm must be involved to be successful. In other words, top management must be involved in the firm’s diversity efforts; they cannot delegate the responsibility to associates or attorneys of color. They, too, must be involved.

This also was the conclusion, though stated differently, of Derede McAlpin in an article in the National Law Journal. (more…)

LawBizTips new E-Zine

Press Release: LawBiz expert launches new FREE eZine for lawyers – (more…)

Strategic planning is important for the small firm as well

Much of the business theory developed by academics comes from – and applies to – big corporate businesses. It rarely sits easily with small firms or professional practices. Yet strategy is important.

Laurie Young, a consultant in the UK, wrote an interesting article that appeared in LegalWeek. (more…)