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Title	Date
Articles in Managing
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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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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