Links - My "Top 10" out of 1000 in my Aggregator Today
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I've neglected my aggregator for a couple of days and it has punished me by filling up with over 1000 posts. At just a second or two each to decide whether to read a post or not, and reading about 1 in 20, that's still about two hours to plough through the lot. Here are 10 out of the 1000 that particularly caught my eye:
1. If you've heard of Bob Sutton's book The No Asshole Rule - Building a civilized workplace and surviving one that isn't, then you'll enjoy this 4 minute 42 second video on how he came to write the book. Valuable lessons to all those of us that have to endure jerks in our organizations.
2. Comment of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s 2006 Chief Legal Officer Survey by The Wired GC. The top three reasons for giving law firms the boot: (1) Cost management (2) Mishandling matters (3) Lack of responsiveness.
3. Skadden Arps serving hot cocoa to warm up cold lawyers, from The Wall Street Journal
4. Bruce MacEwen at Adam Smith Esq on law firm diversity and also (5) on Mediocre Strategy, Superb Execution : or the Difference between Brains and Guts.
6. Charles J. Lowry on five large law firms Alston & Bird, Arnold & Porter, Bingham McCutchen (if you're into African wildlife you'll love the pic on their web site, too,) Nixon Peabody, and Perkins Coie that have made Fortune's Top 100 Companies to Work For this year.
7. Robert Ambrogi's post on Virtual Family Dinners makes me wonder which firm will be the first to install the technology in their offices and lawyers' homes, to remove the need for them to head home before 10 PM, so opening the door to the 3000 billable hour year! (Don't shoot me - I am joking!)
8. Here's a spot of vocational guidance in the form of a short video featuring John Cleese and Michael Palin of Monty Python fame, courtesy of Dennis Howlett at AccMan. Chartered accountant or lion tamer? You decide.
9. Rod Boothby, formerly of Ernst & Young and now with Teqlo on The Executable Web, on how the internet is morphing fundamentally from static web pages and hyper links to "a world in which the web both helps us to communicate and also automate complex tasks in our lives."
10. I have no hesitation in adding Adventure of Strategy to the growing number of blogs related to the legal profession roundly condemning the attack by the senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism, on US law firms defending those detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, reported in the New York Times today. As my friend and colleague Gerry Riskin puts it:
"Those responsible for this vicious attack would not know "Magna Carta" if they stepped on it (and they are stepping on it) – how ironic is it that they attack the basis of their own freedom."
Read his posting on the subject here.
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