Here are the latest embedded metaposts (See my post of March 19, 2009: Part XXVII.), each of which shows the number of references cited within them. Collaboration and teamwork (See my post of April 5, 2009: teamwork and collaboration internally with 16 references.). Forty-sixty ratio of legal spend (See my…
The general counsel of HSBC Japan features in a profile in Asian-Counsel, e-edition March 2009 at 38. Michael Hancock, while practicing at Lovells and before joining HSBC, took a six-month secondment with Standard Chartered Bank. A few years later he took a second secondment, at Nishow Iwai (now Sojitz). Lengthy…
Goldman Sachs GC receives $38.3 million buy out from unprofitable fund. The Wall St. J, March 28-29, 2009 at B3, reports that Goldman Sachs paid one of its co-general counsel, Gregory Palm, $38.3 million to buy him out of employee funds that had been invested in loss-making private equity and…
My shingle went up as a solo consultant to general counsel one year ago today, a deeply satisfying year. This blog, too, has benefited because I feel free to write about any topic and in whatever form I believe. I have also been able to do much more with the…
Nice folks shouldn’t be expected to finish last. “People tend to see warmth and competence as inversely related.” As explained in the Harv. Bus. Rev., Vol. 86, Feb. 2009 at 24, being nice doesn’t mean being incompetent. Nor, of course, is being mean a sign of effectiveness. Unfortunately, both inferences…
Data visualization software. Tableau Software’s offering looks impressive. Its software is“based on a proprietary technology called VizQL, a visualization query language that makes information from databases and spreadsheets almost instantly accessible in an easy-to-read form.” I spent some time on the website of Tableau Software and was intrigued at the…
The 250+ metaposts that I have compiled and embedded on this blog group into several broader topics. Most prominently, four topics account for a largest number of total posts. Software leads with 196 posts, which surprises me because I do not do much consulting regarding many of the genre of…
Here are the latest embedded metaposts (See my post of March 8, 2009: Part XXVI.), each of which shows the number of references cited within them. Bell curve (See my post of March 12, 2009: bell curves with 8 references.). Cognitive traps (See my post of March 15, 2009: cognitive…
Ways to encourage ideas. Patrick Lamb left a very good comment to my post about ways to encourage discussion (See my post of Feb. 18, 2009: ten suggestions on how to hear from everyone in a group.). “One of the techniques that I have used frequently that works very well…
Tease me for hair-splitting or praise me for hair-raising perspicuity, I will still continue to write about differences between similar management concepts. Many posts on these pages express my effort to use management terms precisely and correctly, such as the nuances between “effective” and “blended” rates, “litigation” and “lawsuit,” “statistics”…