How should you really handle “Difficult People” and “A-Holes” at Work?
Answer: Learn from them. Hire them. Try to keep them. Work with, for, through and around them. Cultivate The Difficult and even […]
Month: March 2011
Ruthie
http://www.iosh.co.uk/groups/offshore_group/group_articles/a_year_of_change_for_health_.aspx
Our Tribute to Women’s Month, Teletubbies & Neutered U.S. Males.
Greaseman: Power Boaters v. Sail Boaters.
Ancient Galleries. Ancient Faces. Part II: Is she cheating on you?
“The men don’t know.”
At Cross-Culture: Suffolk’s Sir Eldon Griffiths on the U.S. in Libya.
At R.D. Lewis’s fine Cross-Culture, see “Long Before the No-Fly Zone, the US Hit Gaddafiland Hard” by Eldon Griffiths, a journalist and […]
Bennet Kelley’s CyberLaw & Business Report: Podcasts 1 -7.
You can find the first seven shows right here. In No. 7, “Search Marketing and the Wireless Spam Act”, which aired March […]
Business-to-Business Recession Litigation: Smarter, and Shorter, Battles This Time.
Finality itself is, very often, your client’s “win”. –Some in-house guy in northern Italy, and others. Let’s indulge in a few law […]
Employees are Third. What did yours do for you last week?
(Warner Bros.) Sorry. But it’s not about Your Employees. Ever. It’s about Customers, Clients, and Buyers. If one employee does not put […]
Sticking: You and yours have it?
Via our friend Andrew Brooks: London Tax Lawyer, Wordsmith & Stand-Up Guy.
Heroes and Leaders: Anyone out there with Soul and Sand?
Pro bono work for the poor and disenfranchised? Bar association causes and events? The Rotary? Insular church groups? Work soup kitchens on […]
Been everywhere, man–but nothing trumps this.
“Law is the ultimate backstage pass.” ““ John Milton/Satan (L’Associé du Diable) I’m gushing but torn, like a guy who just ran […]
The Economist: Japan March 11 Quake Ripples Through Markets.
See “Market Tremors. Excerpt: The Nikkei 225 index fell 17.5% in the three trading days following the catastrophe, wiping some Â¥37 trillion […]
Slackoisie Studies: George Carlin in “Bobby, You’re a Loser”.
“Bobby, clean out your desk.” (Busy polishing trophies? Skip to 4:30.)
Northeast Japan
15 hours ago: Near Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan (Kyodo News/ Reuters)
Who says popular election of state judges is “Fishy”?
How rude. Not giving money to sitting judges and would-be judges for their campaigns? Next thing you know, lawyers will no longer […]
The UK: Scotland upgrades view of America.
From our Senior Brit Cultural Advisor (“Things Celtic”) Duncan Campbell King–whom quite remarkably recently-separated WAC/P writer Holden Oliver hasn’t slept with yet–at […]
Do Visit Bat Country: Disturbing. Never Pretty. Instructive.
Or we’ll put the leeches on you. Visit Military Underdog first, and Popehat second, each pictured below celebrating Lent. They’re your friends, […]
Marrakech: Gallic Elegance. Dinner. Legs.
Listen up. If you’re an American male and still a real guy–i.e., not a lispy 30-something robo-twit metrosexual but actual U.S. Male […]
Shrove Tuesday: Let’s run this by the gods, shall we?
Neither Mardi Gras nor Lent are commanded in the Bible but come from pre-Christian, pagan customs. What does God think about such […]
Jim McElhaney: Write and Practice to the Ear.
In several of its decades, in my view, Jim McElhaney was the only person or thing that saved the ABA from being […]
Rancho Bernardo, California.
I spend a lot of time here in this suburb of San Diego. In one sense, it’s a bit like my beloved […]
Corporate Counsel: What kind of SEC?
See Broc Romanek’s piece yesterday, “Should the SEC Be Reorganized? If So, How?” Excerpt: With a government shutdown averted–at least for two […]
The Good, The Bad, The Wakened.
Stand Up Loud: Dance. Off Your Limp & Faggy White-Collar Knees.
Bang Bang for Customers: Step Up. Sound Off. Change It All.
Warner Bros./Columbia Records The very best reformers commence on themselves. — George Bernard Shaw Break out of captivity…your heart’s still wild. — […]