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Title	Date
Articles in Managing
Selecting A Leader: Do We Know What We Want?	2007
Accountability: Effective Managers Go First (published on ChangeThis.com)	2006
The One-Firm Firm Revisited	2006
Managing the Multidimensional Organization	2006
Why (Most) Training is Useless	2006
A Natural Manager	2006
Are Law Firms Manageable?	2006
Management: What it Really Takes	2005
Are You Abusive, Cynical, or Exciting?	2005
A Great Coach in Action	2005
Tips on Managing People	2002
Restoring Optimism in a Down Period	2002
Creating Value Through People	2002
The Courage to Manage	2001
Are you ready for Practice Group Leaders?	1999
Results and Rewards in the Multi-Group Firm	1994
Meeting Goals	1994
Garbage Can Decision Making	1983
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Blog posts in Managing
Title	Date
The indecisive employee	2008-04-30
New Service for Law Firm Managing Partners	2008-03-03
New Blogosphere game	2008-02-18
What Management Owes the Individual Professional	2008-02-04
The Problems with the Traditional Law firm Management Model	2008-01-31
Compensation Systems: Sales Commissions	2008-01-28
Compensation Systems	2008-01-25
Mentoring	2008-01-14
Ruthlessness and Charity	2008-01-02
Meeting Rules	2007-12-12
The Rule of St. Benedict	2007-12-03
Mentoring	2007-11-28
Technical Excelllence	2007-11-21
Believer or Skeptic?	2007-11-20
Managing Professionals in Not-For-Profits	2007-11-12
So Young and So Jaded	2007-10-24
Loyalty to Whom?	2007-10-17
B-School competition on Human Capital	2007-10-09
Book Review: Lead Well and Prosper	2007-10-04
We Just Donâ€™t Want to Do That!	2007-10-01
New Case Study Discussion feature at BusinessWeek.com	2007-09-28
Fat Smoker principles: Update on the war for talent	2007-09-25
Fat Smoker Principles: Surviving a Short-Term Environment	2007-09-19
About Women	2007-09-18
Outcomes and Behaviors	2007-09-17
How Much Standardization?	2007-09-12
Why Does Bad Management Thrive So Much?	2007-09-06
The Importance of Appearance	2007-09-03
Blawgworld 2007	2007-07-30
Governement Operations as Professional Service Organizations	2007-07-20
Executive Intelligence	2007-07-13
Living by the Principles	2007-07-10
New book on HOW	2007-07-03
Great People Decisions	2007-06-26
Sales Commissions	2007-06-21
A Summation of What I've Learned	2007-06-20
Authentic Leaders	2007-06-15
The 2R Manager	2007-06-13
Is Managing Professionals Different?	2007-05-18
Happiness is Relative	2007-05-09
Not Qualified to Manage - new managing videocast & audiocast	2007-04-30
The War For Talent	2007-04-27
Good to Good	2007-04-20
Making The Network Work	2007-04-05
The Long Term	2007-04-03
How Not to Manage People	2007-03-30
Leadership Qualities	2007-03-23
The Balanced scorecard on YOU may be coming soon	2007-03-19
We Don't work for Jerks	2007-03-09
The Three-Month Rule	2007-03-08
Hold Issue-Solving meetings	2007-03-07
Watch out!	2007-03-01
Performance Appraisals	2007-02-22
What Managers Do Least Well	2007-02-07
Sad Truths for Leaders	2007-02-02
Stylists	2007-01-31
20 Bad Workplace Habits	2007-01-30
Non-Financial Currencies	2007-01-18
The Hardest Working Leader in Show Business?	2006-12-26
We Succeed When We All Succeed	2006-12-22
Rights and Obligations	2006-12-15
I Need to Stop Changing My Mind!	2006-12-14
What If You're Not That Interested in People?	2006-12-07
Now, That's Leadership!	2006-12-06
How to Layoff 2,000 People	2006-12-05
Partner Compensation in a Start-Up	2006-11-27
BusinessWeek Editor speaks!	2006-11-27
A Shakespearean Retreat	2006-11-22
Why Are Some People So Motivated?	2006-11-20
Are We ON The Same Side?	2006-11-17
Wise words	2006-11-16
Creating and Sustaining Professionalism (In Oneself and Others)	2006-11-13
We'll Follow the Old Man Wherever He Wants to Go	2006-11-07
Innovations about Innovating	2006-11-06
Marines and Mercenaries	2006-11-01
How to Pay professional Employees	2006-10-31
Squeezing the Stress Sponge	2006-10-30
Bob Sutton's 'No Asshole Rule	2006-10-26
Nothing New Under the Sun	2006-10-22
Repairing Fences	2006-10-20
The IQ of a Meeting	2006-10-18
Getting an Organization to Stretch	2006-10-16
Employer Value Proposition	2006-10-11
How Did You Lose Your Innocence?	2006-10-10
Managing the Multidimensional Firm	2006-10-02
The Best Manager I Ever Had	2006-09-28
Metrics for Internal Service providers	2006-09-28
Blawg Review #76	2006-09-24
360-degree Feedback Programs	2006-09-19
Screening for Character	2006-09-06
What's a Senior Partner For?	2006-09-05
The Sad Life of the Staff Person	2006-08-30
What My Boss Could Do To Convince Us	2006-08-28
You Gotta Go First	2006-08-26
Innovation in the Practice of Law	2006-08-16
Life Could Be Better	2006-08-16
How We Really Make Decisions	2006-08-11
The First 100 Days	2006-08-09
Dealing With the Worried Well	2006-08-07
Start the Day Off Right!	2006-08-03
What New Hires Are Thinking	2006-08-02
The Mutidimensional Organization	2006-07-30
Two More Interviews	2006-07-26
The High Priest's Catechism	2006-07-19
Work and LifeStyle Balance - Can a firm Give Options?	2006-07-18
Teaching Guts	2006-07-13
Benchmarks	2006-07-11
Getting Good at Getting Feedback	2006-07-06
Assigning People and Work	2006-07-06
The Forgiveness Index	2006-07-04
The End of Apprenticeship	2006-06-29
The Training Article	2006-06-28
Alignment and Accountability	2006-06-27
Write it Down	2006-06-26
How to be Intimate	2006-06-21
Two New Interviews	2006-06-14
Relationship Strength	2006-06-09
Who to Hire	2006-06-04
Disclosing People's Pay	2006-06-02
Keeping the Kids	2006-05-27
Creating a High-Trust Organization	2006-05-24
The Keynote Speech Charade	2006-05-22
Number of RSS Feeds	2006-05-17
Working Internationally	2006-05-16
Who Can Help?	2006-05-12
Stress at the Top	2006-05-10
When Are You At Your Best?	2006-05-02
Goldman's Secret	2006-05-01
A Natural Manager (and Free Podcasts)	2006-04-26
Don't Measure, Judge!	2006-04-25
Does Your Organization Add Any Value? How Do You Know?	2006-04-21
The Branded Free Agent Hub	2006-04-20
Dry Cleaning and Grocery Shopping	2006-04-17
Can the Good Guys Win?	2006-04-13
Who Should Lead?	2006-04-07
Stop Paying for Performance	2006-04-03
Saving the Training Baby	2006-03-31
Are Law Firms Manageable?	2006-03-29
Emotional Self-Control	2006-03-29
Dangerous Rubbish About Leadership	2006-03-26
Managerial Underperformance	2006-03-26
The Shoemaker's Children	2006-03-20
Whatever Happened to Quality?	2006-03-17
Why Training Is Useless	2006-03-15
Creating A New Religion	2006-03-07
Escalating Appeals	2006-02-21
The Managing Partner's Speech	2006-02-14
Internal Blogs as a Management Tool	2006-02-04
Lies	2006-01-29
Professional Firm Boards	2006-01-27
Team Rivalry	2006-01-25
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Podcasts in Managing
Title	Date
Accountability	2007-06-18
Managing Dad	2007-06-11
Using Language to Get What You Want	2007-06-04
Train a Pigeon	2007-05-28
Getting Others to Give You What You Want	2007-05-21
How Managers Should Spend Their Time	2007-05-14
Excitement	2007-05-07
Not Qualified to Manage	2007-04-30
Managing Works	2007-04-23
Why Bother? Summary and Review	2006-07-10
You Cannot Manage Through Pay Schemes	2006-07-03
Develop Your Group's Rules of Membership	2006-06-26
Clarify Group Goals	2006-06-19
Tackle Your Prima Donnas	2006-06-12
Help Underperformers	2006-06-05
Deal Differently With Different People	2006-05-29
Motivating Professionals	2006-05-22
What A Manager Must Be, Believe and Do	2006-05-15
The Management Strain	2006-05-08
Why Should I Follow You?	2006-05-01
How Managers Should Spend Their Time	2006-04-18
A Great Coach in Action	2006-04-18
How Managers Add Value	2006-04-18
A Natural Manager	2006-04-18
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