Thank You ....
Posted By Rob Millard - 2 Comments -
Now here's a chap that could teach us all a thing or two about leaning over backwards for clients! He's the limbo dancer in the Port Lucaya market, just down the road from where we live here in Freeport on Grand Bahama island, and where we will be seeing the New Year in later this evening.
This will be my last posting of 2006. I have many people to thank for what has proved to be a momentous year. Most of all, my dear and long suffering wife Creena and my friends and fellow principals Mike Anderson, Patrick McKenna and Gerry Riskin in Edge International. Next year, I am absolutely convinced, is going to be hard work but FANTASTIC!
I started off this year knowing next to nothing about blogging, launching Adventure of Strategy back in February. In the ten months since then, it has climbed to the top 100,000 in Technorati (out of about 52 million blogs worldwide, apparently) and has become an inseparable part of my life. Not just posting but, far more importantly, reading what others have to say. Throughout the year, I have been educated, entertained and forced to think deeply about things that would otherwise have been glossed over. I have had my paradigms challenged, my brain stretched and my curiosity piqued. Input from fellow bloggers has without doubt improved my professional practice, my ability and enthusiasm to serve my clients well and of course it has improved my blog itself too. All this from people that, for the most part, I have never met or even spoken to!
To all of you, I owe an immeasurable debt of gratitude. THANK YOU!!!
The following (in no particular order) are just some of those to whom this thanks is directed, specifically:
Socialtext's Ross Mayfield
Rod Boothby at Innovation Creators
The folk at Innovation Tools
The folk at Innoblog
Brad Feld at Feld Thoughts
The inimitable Seth Godin
Jonathan Vehar and Joyce Wycoff at Heads Up!
Guy Kawasaki at How to Change the World
The folk at Offshore Outsourcing World
Jeffrey Phillips at Innovate on Purpose
Daniel Scocco at Innovation Zen
The folk at Fortune's Business Innovation Insider
Dennis Howlett at AccMan
Larry Bodine and Michael Cummings at Associate Marketing Mentor
Jim Hassett at Legal Business Development
The folk at The Expertise Marketplace
The folk at RainToday
Michelle Golden at Golden Practices
Chris Marston at Inside The Firm Of The Future
Dan Hull at What About Clients?
Bruce Marcus at The Marcus Perspective
The folk at Client Service Insights
Lisa Haneberg at Management Craft
Michael Dewitt at Spooky Action
Tom Foster at Management Skills Blog
The sages at VeraSage
Walter Baets and his colleagues at Complexity, Innovation and Knowledge
The folk at the Gurteen Knowledge Community
Jim Lee at apqc knowledge management blog
Ross Dawson at Trends in the Living Networks
Debbie Weil at BlogWrite for CEOs
John Hagel at Edge Perspectives
Mike McLaughlin at Guerilla Consulting
David Maister, who was responsible in no small measure for me choosing professional service firm strategy as my life work, at Professional Business Professional Life
The folk at MBA Depot and their sister site Management and Leadership Articles
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner at Freakonomics
Dick Richards at Come Gather Road
The anonymous author behind China Confidential
Craig Henry at Lead and Gold
Debbie Call at Spirit in Gear
Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen
Alex Osterwalder at Business Model Design and Innovation
Kevin O'Keefe at Lexblog (the hosts of this site)
The inventor of the "!" as a stand-alone management expression, Tom Peters
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
Nicholas Carr at Rough Type
Rob May at Business Pundit
Peter Klein at Organizations and Markets
The Complexity and Social Networks Blog at Harvard University
Jim McGee at McGee's Musings
Patricia Kushills, Cheryl Rofer and Patricia Lee Sharp at WhirledView
Ross Hollman at Strategize
Sramana Mitra at Sramana Mitra on Strategy
The folk from Anecdote down under in Australia
Steve Bealing, Sharon Darwent, Cynthia Kurtz and Dave Snowden from Cognitive Edge in Singapore
Alice Snell at Taleo X
Bob Sutton at Work Matters
Richard Edelman at Rich Edelman, "currently bouncing around in a jeep on a dusty road in Rajastan"
Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution
Malcolm Gladwell of 'Tipping Point' and 'Blink' fame, at Gladwell.com
"A London-based macroeconomist" at New Economist
The folk at the usually absolutely fascinating Damn Interesting
Lawrence Harrison and his colleagues at Cato Unbound
Don Blohowiak at Leadership. Now.
Curt Wehrley at The Bell Curve Scar
Frank Gilbane and his colleagues at the Gilbane Group Blog
Andrew McAfee (Harvard Business School) at The Impact of IT on Businesses and their Leaders
Dennis Kennedy
David Seah at David Seah Better Living Through New Media
Law Practice Today
Ed Poll at LawBiz Blog
Charles Lowry at ALM Research Online
Cordell Parvin at Law Consulting Blog
Bruce MacEwen at his completely peerless Adam Smith Esq
The folk at the Wall Street Jounal Law Blog
Rees Morrison at Law Department Management
Jim Calloway at his Law Practice Tips Blog
Roger Hayse at The Hayse Blog
Mark Beese at Leadership for Lawyers
Matt Homann at the [non]billable hour
Monica Bay at The Common Scold
Robert Ambrogi at his LawSites
Patrick Lamb at In Search of Perfect Client Service
Larry Bodine at his LegalMarketing Blog
Law.com's Large Law Firm
Stephanie West Allen at Idealawg
The folk at LawFuel.com
The anonymous author of Wired GC
Axel Horn at IP::JUR
John Robb at Global Guerrillas
James Hamilton and Menzie Chinn at Econbrowser
The folk at Economist's View
To all of you, and probably quite a few others that I have unintentionally omitted (humble apologies if this is the case,) a huge THANK YOU once again, and my best wishes to you and yours for a prosperous and happy 2007.
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I am grateful if I in any way contributed to your being, "forced to think deeply about things that would otherwise have been glossed over."
Thanks for saying thanks.
Thanks for your kind comments. Sramana