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September 17, 2008
CPR, and The Politics of Disputes: "The Mediator's Handbook"
On September 5, General Electric's Mike McIlwrath interviewed Jenny Beer, co-author of The Mediator's Handbook, in his weekly radio show at The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR). The book, now a standard for the practice of mediation, was first published in 1982. See at CPR's site "Mediator's Handbook After 25 Years, with Jenny Beer". The podcast is here.
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Business and Net Royalty Hosts Blawg Review
Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends
We're not easily star-struck.
Cruel, ruthless and demanding--eccentrics who think that employees are paid to work and add value, rather than to just talk, be wankers, leave work at 5:45 PM and feel good about themselves--WAC? writers are different. Hardened. Tough. And not easily impressed. And we don't even like small businesses (except ours), small minds, small towns (under 5 million SMSA) or small parking places. We've grown up around, worked with, drank with and/or even "dated"--if you call trophy sport-swiving "dating" (and we do)--a few public figures, politicians, artists and celebrities. We are not usually fazed.
But like Parker Posey, who WAC? met last year in the Newark airport and still has a huge thing for, Anita Campbell, of the widely-read and respected Small Business Trends, is also different, and authentic. Even glamorous. Somehow we feel like the flustered men or women who met Sharon Stone or George Clooney in the early days, before anyone knew Stone and Clooney were just more fun bozos on a boomer bus.
Seriously, folks (and just kidding, Sharon, George), Anita's site does have five (5) qualities you almost never see in Anything: Popular, Interesting, Well-Written, To-the-Point, Useful.
See Blawg Review this week and Anita's Back to Business Blawg Review #177. WAC? is not worthy. We be flustered.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (1)
In a down economy.
In July, Tom Kane, at his well-regarded Legal Marketing Blog, focused on marketing during "bad times". Once again:
Now, More Than Ever, Talk With Your Clients
Down Economy: Rainmakers Need Not Worry
Best Practices for the Down Economy
We add: (1) Stick to clients you have. (2) Make sure all employees buy into Client Service with the fervor of evangelists. (3) Consider today terminating uninspired or "looter" employees who add no value, starting with, first, the "Unwilling", and second, the "Unable" (in good times and bad times, it's either You or Them, and eventually they will do you in). (4) Hire lawyer-consultant Tom Kane, straight-up and fair.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
"I believe in Wasilla."
You think America is getting even more dumbed down? Well, decide for yourself. Meet Todd, the First Dude, or Sarah Palin's "package", in Salon. Excerpt:
According to local politicos and observers, he lurks around the capitol if he doesn't have anything better to do, which, since he works seasonal jobs in oil and fishing, is fairly often.
And then see this:
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Coming soon: "Why Johnny Can't Work".
Or "The New Employee as Houseplant". Dan Hull just got back to the States--and now suddenly goes back to Europe for a few days. But he plans to finish the above when he returns. ("I may have figured out why these people can't accomplish anything; so alert the Media..."). Whatever, Dan.
In the meantime, see at Scott Greenfield's "The Lawprofs Respond: The Slackoiesie are Differently Abled" at Simple Justice and Jeffrey Harrison's "Creating Disabilities" at MoneyLaw. Greenfield, a hero to boomers, is on a roll. Query: can "high self-esteem" exist along side marginal abilities/low self-respect? And isn't this in the DSM IV somewhere?
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:23 AM | Comments (2)
Booze Piano
"My name is ___, and it's been three months since I tickled the ivories in a blackout."
From GeekLawyer, and a sensitive aftermath of LawBlog 2008.
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