Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
by Rajendra Sisodia, David Wolfe and Jagdish N. Sheth contends that companies with more emotionally intelligent employees have stronger bottom line performance than those who don’t. David Wolfe can be a controversial adviser, and some have suggested that being recognized as a good corporate citizen should be sufficient
January 2007
“Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”
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The 21st Century Leader
A recent study conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership found that effective leadership has changed over the last five years. Eighty-four percent (84%) of those polled said leaders today are valued for collaboration skills, such as building and mending relationships, rather than solitary heroics, the standard five years ago. Specifically important is being able to "enhance…
Carnegie Foundation Study Indicts Legal Education
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching summarizes its two-year study of the North American legal education system by concluding that "law school provides the beginning, not the full development, of students’ professional competence and identity. At present, what most students get as a beginning is insufficient."
The report recommends "a dynamic curriculum that moves…
Big Merger Goes Bust
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Law Firms Are Not Google: Hiring for Success
The 100 Best Employers
From over 400 organizations surveyed, five law firms, down one from last year and with most of the survivors heading down the list, made Fortune magazine’s 2007 list of the best 100 employers to work for: Alston & Bird, Arnold & Porter, Nixon Peabody, Perkins Coie and Bingham McCutchen,…
Legal Thought Leaders Pinpoint People Management Issues As Critical
In a study conducted last fall of managing partners, general counsel, and other legal leaders, Altman Weil identified five key market trends and critical concerns. It noted that people management was one of the highest priorities on everyone’s list, with one partner saying that he goes to sleep "never knowing who might be leaving tomorrow." The…
KPMG Model Delivers Risk Management, Teamwork, Client Satisfaction and Diversity Too
Accounting firms have long been ahead of law firms in innovative management strategies for personal service firms– and as law firms head toward numbering thousands instead of hundreds of lawyers, there is much we can learn from how accounting firms manage people.
At a two-day ARK Group conference in December on Women in Professional Service Firms…
Two New Studies Sound Alert About African-American Hiring and Retention
The Board of Law Examiners proposed increasing the passing score on the New York bar exam from 660 to 675 in 5-point intervals, the first of which was instituted in July 2005 with the next two increments scheduled for the following two summers. Those have been delayed and the National Conference of Bar Examiners has…