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Management is about helping other people become more successful than they would be if they were left only to their own devices. It’s also about channeling individual ambitions so that organizational goals are accomplished.

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Articles in Managing

Title Date

Selecting A Leader: Do We Know What We Want?

2007

Are Law Firms Manageable?

2006

A Natural Manager

2006

Why (Most) Training is Useless

2006

Managing the Multidimensional Organization

2006

The One-Firm Firm Revisited

2006

Accountability: Effective Managers Go First (published on ChangeThis.com)

2006

A Great Coach in Action

2005

Are You Abusive, Cynical, or Exciting?

2005

Management: What it Really Takes

2005

Restoring Optimism in a Down Period

2002

Tips on Managing People

2002

The Courage to Manage

2001

Are you ready for Practice Group Leaders?

1999

Meeting Goals

1994

Results and Rewards in the Multi-Group Firm

1994

Garbage Can Decision Making

1983

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ARTICLES: Strategy | Client Relations | Careers | General

Posts in Managing

Title Date

The indecisive employee

April 30, 2008

New Service for Law Firm Managing Partners

March 3, 2008

New Blogosphere game

February 18, 2008

What Management Owes the Individual Professional

February 4, 2008

The Problems with the Traditional Law firm Management Model

January 31, 2008

Compensation Systems: Sales Commissions

January 28, 2008

Compensation Systems

January 25, 2008

Mentoring

January 14, 2008

Ruthlessness and Charity

January 2, 2008

Meeting Rules

December 12, 2007

The Rule of St. Benedict

December 3, 2007

Mentoring

November 28, 2007

Technical Excelllence

November 21, 2007

Believer or Skeptic?

November 20, 2007

Managing Professionals in Not-For-Profits

November 12, 2007

So Young and So Jaded

October 24, 2007

Loyalty to Whom?

October 17, 2007

B-School competition on Human Capital

October 9, 2007

Book Review: Lead Well and Prosper

October 4, 2007

We Just Don’t Want to Do That!

October 1, 2007

New Case Study Discussion feature at BusinessWeek.com

September 28, 2007

Fat Smoker principles: Update on the war for talent

September 25, 2007

Fat Smoker Principles: Surviving a Short-Term Environment

September 19, 2007

About Women

September 18, 2007

Outcomes and Behaviors

September 17, 2007

How Much Standardization?

September 12, 2007

Why Does Bad Management Thrive So Much?

September 6, 2007

The Importance of Appearance

September 3, 2007

Blawgworld 2007

July 30, 2007

Governement Operations as Professional Service Organizations

July 20, 2007

Executive Intelligence

July 13, 2007

Living by the Principles

July 10, 2007

New book on HOW

July 3, 2007

Great People Decisions

June 26, 2007

Sales Commissions

June 21, 2007

A Summation of What I’ve Learned

June 20, 2007

Authentic Leaders

June 15, 2007

The 2R Manager

June 13, 2007

Is Managing Professionals Different?

May 18, 2007

Happiness is Relative

May 9, 2007

Not Qualified to Manage – new managing videocast & audiocast

April 30, 2007

The War For Talent

April 27, 2007

Good to Good

April 20, 2007

Making The Network Work

April 5, 2007

The Long Term

April 3, 2007

How Not to Manage People

March 30, 2007

Leadership Qualities

March 23, 2007

The Balanced scorecard on YOU may be coming soon

March 19, 2007

We Don’t work for Jerks

March 9, 2007

The Three-Month Rule

March 8, 2007

Hold Issue-Solving meetings

March 7, 2007

Watch out!

March 1, 2007

Performance Appraisals

February 22, 2007

What Managers Do Least Well

February 7, 2007

Sad Truths for Leaders

February 2, 2007

Stylists

January 31, 2007

20 Bad Workplace Habits

January 30, 2007

Non-Financial Currencies

January 18, 2007

The Hardest Working Leader in Show Business?

December 26, 2006

We Succeed When We All Succeed

December 22, 2006

Rights and Obligations

December 15, 2006

I Need to Stop Changing My Mind!

December 14, 2006

What If You’re Not That Interested in People?

December 7, 2006

Now, That’s Leadership!

December 6, 2006

How to Layoff 2,000 People

December 5, 2006

BusinessWeek Editor speaks!

November 27, 2006

Partner Compensation in a Start-Up

November 27, 2006

A Shakespearean Retreat

November 22, 2006

Why Are Some People So Motivated?

November 20, 2006

Are We ON The Same Side?

November 17, 2006

Wise words

November 16, 2006

Creating and Sustaining Professionalism (In Oneself and Others)

November 13, 2006

We’ll Follow the Old Man Wherever He Wants to Go

November 7, 2006

Innovations about Innovating

November 6, 2006

Marines and Mercenaries

November 1, 2006

How to Pay professional Employees

October 31, 2006

Squeezing the Stress Sponge

October 30, 2006

Bob Sutton’s ‘No Asshole Rule

October 26, 2006

Nothing New Under the Sun

October 22, 2006

Repairing Fences

October 20, 2006

The IQ of a Meeting

October 18, 2006

Getting an Organization to Stretch

October 16, 2006

Employer Value Proposition

October 11, 2006

How Did You Lose Your Innocence?

October 10, 2006

Managing the Multidimensional Firm

October 2, 2006

Metrics for Internal Service providers

September 28, 2006

The Best Manager I Ever Had

September 28, 2006

Blawg Review #76

September 24, 2006

360-degree Feedback Programs

September 19, 2006

Screening for Character

September 6, 2006

What’s a Senior Partner For?

September 5, 2006

The Sad Life of the Staff Person

August 30, 2006

What My Boss Could Do To Convince Us

August 28, 2006

You Gotta Go First

August 26, 2006

Life Could Be Better

August 16, 2006

Innovation in the Practice of Law

August 16, 2006

How We Really Make Decisions

August 11, 2006

The First 100 Days

August 9, 2006

Dealing With the Worried Well

August 7, 2006

Start the Day Off Right!

August 3, 2006

What New Hires Are Thinking

August 2, 2006

The Mutidimensional Organization

July 30, 2006

Two More Interviews

July 26, 2006

The High Priest’s Catechism

July 19, 2006

Work and LifeStyle Balance – Can a firm Give Options?

July 18, 2006

Teaching Guts

July 13, 2006

Benchmarks

July 11, 2006

Assigning People and Work

July 6, 2006

Getting Good at Getting Feedback

July 6, 2006

The Forgiveness Index

July 4, 2006

The End of Apprenticeship

June 29, 2006

The Training Article

June 28, 2006

Alignment and Accountability

June 27, 2006

Write it Down

June 26, 2006

How to be Intimate

June 21, 2006

Two New Interviews

June 14, 2006

Relationship Strength

June 9, 2006

Who to Hire

June 4, 2006

Disclosing People’s Pay

June 2, 2006

Keeping the Kids

May 27, 2006

Creating a High-Trust Organization

May 24, 2006

The Keynote Speech Charade

May 22, 2006

Number of RSS Feeds

May 17, 2006

Working Internationally

May 16, 2006

Who Can Help?

May 12, 2006

Stress at the Top

May 10, 2006

When Are You At Your Best?

May 2, 2006

Goldman’s Secret

May 1, 2006

A Natural Manager (and Free Podcasts)

April 26, 2006

Don’t Measure, Judge!

April 25, 2006

Does Your Organization Add Any Value? How Do You Know?

April 21, 2006

The Branded Free Agent Hub

April 20, 2006

Dry Cleaning and Grocery Shopping

April 17, 2006

Can the Good Guys Win?

April 13, 2006

Who Should Lead?

April 7, 2006

Stop Paying for Performance

April 3, 2006

Saving the Training Baby

March 31, 2006

Emotional Self-Control

March 29, 2006

Are Law Firms Manageable?

March 29, 2006

Managerial Underperformance

March 26, 2006

Dangerous Rubbish About Leadership

March 26, 2006

The Shoemaker’s Children

March 20, 2006

Whatever Happened to Quality?

March 17, 2006

Why Training Is Useless

March 15, 2006

Creating A New Religion

March 7, 2006

Escalating Appeals

February 21, 2006

The Managing Partner’s Speech

February 14, 2006

Internal Blogs as a Management Tool

February 4, 2006

Lies

January 29, 2006

Professional Firm Boards

January 27, 2006

Team Rivalry

January 25, 2006

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Podcasts in Managing

Title Date

Accountability

June 18, 2007

Managing Dad

June 11, 2007

Using Language to Get What You Want

June 4, 2007

Train a Pigeon

May 28, 2007

Getting Others to Give You What You Want

May 21, 2007

How Managers Should Spend Their Time

May 14, 2007

Excitement

May 7, 2007

Not Qualified to Manage

April 30, 2007

Managing Works

April 23, 2007

Why Bother? Summary and Review

July 10, 2006

You Cannot Manage Through Pay Schemes

July 3, 2006

Develop Your Group’s Rules of Membership

June 26, 2006

Clarify Group Goals

June 19, 2006

Tackle Your Prima Donnas

June 12, 2006

Help Underperformers

June 5, 2006

Deal Differently With Different People

May 29, 2006

Motivating Professionals

May 22, 2006

What A Manager Must Be, Believe and Do

May 15, 2006

The Management Strain

May 8, 2006

Why Should I Follow You?

May 1, 2006

A Natural Manager

April 18, 2006

How Managers Add Value

April 18, 2006

A Great Coach in Action

April 18, 2006

How Managers Should Spend Their Time

April 18, 2006

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