legal sanity

The FC Experts Blog recently featured a three-part interview with Mike Dulworth (part two and part three), the author of a new networking book called The Connect Effect: Building Strong Personal, Professional, And Virtual Networks. Dulworth, the head of a...

My friend and business associate Keith Ferrazzi emailed me about his goals for 2008. He shared his belief that, “to be a successful goal-getter,” we need to take a few preliminary steps. First, we have to define our goals. Keith...

Like many lawyers – solos and others – I often emerge from the whirlwind that’s work and life to find that I’ve fallen out of touch with people in my business network. Especially at this time of year, when closing...

Work and life have kept me out of the blogging groove of late. Vetting the feeds and alerts I use to keep pace in the blogosphere, I found several great posts and articles revolving around the theme of the workplace....

While I was away on a business-family trip last week, I took a little time to vet the online hopper where I store fodder for my blog posts. Although it’s all worthy of more in-depth attention, I decided to present...

Last week, over at the motto blog, contributor Curt Rosengren wrote about a new, albeit small, study addressing what people are looking for in their next job. The survey found that the respondents didn’t consider a “move up the career...

Following up on my last post on work-life issues in the law, I came across a couple of new resources you can mine for insight into this important topic. The first is Lisa Haneberg’s “fireside chat” with Passion Catalyst Curt...

In my recent post on fueling lawyer happiness, I discussed the XE Factor - a teaching model of human energy exchange I devised to help lawyers and other service professionals I work with better understand how a particular person, issue,...

When I consider An Inconvenient Truth - the new documentary account of the dangers of global warming - and the current energy deficit in our country, it strikes me that the depleted state of the natural world mirrors the depletion...

The other day, some friends and I were discussing our personal histories of taking risks in our business lives. By risks, we all meant those voluntary - and sometimes involuntary - moves we’ve made into the unknown in order to...

I noticed an advisory theme afoot in my recent RSS readings - a flurry of how-tos for bettering our communication skills. This is popular fodder for building legal sanity, as demonstrated here; here and here (among others). The roundup this...

Around this time of year, people often check their career pulse and, depending on the reading, think about changing jobs or starting a new business. For those in the throws of this regular checkup, Curt Rosengren offers up his new...

As the holidays and New Year approach, many of us find ourselves considering where we are in our personal and professional lives. We take stock of our steps forward and back and try to envision our path for the upcoming...

From passion catalyst Curt Rosengren comes this post offering a quick checklist (adapted from this ThirdAge article) for assessing whether we're successful in our chosen work. Among the checklist's contents are these provocative inquiries: "Are you enjoying what you do?...

Thanks to Curt Rosengren for directing me to Kirsten Johnson's blog, dream big. Kirsten's a life coach, a profession and process I've discussed here and here. She has a very easygoing, approachable writing style. Check out her most recent post...

From the Worthwhile blog and contributor Curt Rosengren comes some interesting and disheartening data on workplace satisfaction in America. According to the post, of the 7,718 American workers polled in a recent survey, "only 12% are extremely satisfied, 20% feel...

The marketing blog brand autopsy is one of my daily views. I enjoy its fresh approach to a subject area that gets much play in the blogosphere. A friend of mine recently suggested that I read Kevin Carroll's Rules of...

Curt Rosengren posted a great question over at Worthwhile blog. After stating that he's witnessed a paradigm shift toward career decisions "made with an eye toward creating a rich, meaningful, fulfilling life," he asks us to let him know what...

The Occupational Adventure pointed out this article recapping a study of Gen-X and Gen-Y views on "job satisfaction, work-life support, gender roles and attitudes." The study found that these two generations boast workers who are "more likely to be 'dual-centric'...