Leadership for Lawyers

New Blogs

Malcolm Gladwell has a new blog:  http://gladwell.typepad.com/.  Gladwell forsook blogs before, but has now come around.

David Maister has a great new blog:  http://davidmaister.com/blog/
along with podcasts, articles, video and his unique attitude.  Worth checking out.

Four Tags

Larry Bodine has asked me to respond to a version of an email chain asking people to give the "top four" in various categories.  I can't stand the email version, but in the odd chance that people are clicking through law practice web sites from Monica Bay to Ernie the Attorney to Rick Klau and Kevin Toefl, I'll comply.

Four Jobs I've had:

• Funeral Director Assistant, the mortician's name was Mr. Dye.
• Studio Assisant to famous artists, Bob and Stephanie Cole.
• VP of an international import-export company
• Marketing Director of an architectual/engineering company

Four movies I can watch over and over:

• Groundhog Day
• Any "Indiana Jones" movie
• Any "Back to the Future" movie
• The Blues Brothers

Four TV shows I love to watch:

• Comedy Central's Daily Show
• West Wing
• Winter Olympics
• World Cup Bobsledding/Luge/Skeleton on Speed Channel

Four places I've been on vacation:

• Salzburg, Austria
• Zion National Park, Utah
• Algonquin Provicial Park, Ontario Canada
• Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Four tunes that play through my head:

• "You've Got to Have Heart" from "Damn Yankees"
• "Good Vibrations", Beach Boys
• "Yellow Submarine", Beatles
• "Boulder to Birmingham", Emmylou Harris

Four websites I visit daily:

• www.Google.com
• www.Zoominfo.com
• www.Rockymountainnews.com
• www.leadershipforlawyers.typepad.com

Four books I really love: 

• Malcolm Gladwell:  The Tipping Point and Blink!
• Top Peters:  Everything to Wow! to his "50" series
• The Bible
• Philip Yancey: What's So Amazing About Grace?

Four places I'd rather be:

• Right here, in Evergreen Colorado
• Right here, in Evergreen Colorado
• Right here, in Evergreen Colorado
• Right here, in Evergreen Colorado

Four bloggers I'm tagging:

• http://legalcompass.typepad.com/
• http://www.gerryriskin.com/
• http://lexthinkinc.squarespace.com/lexthink-blog/
• http://coloradocomments.blogspot.com/

I'm Back

I've returned after a three-month blog sabbatical.  Thanks to everyone who has written to encourage the continuation of leadership for lawyers.  I took some time off to decide where to take the blog next.  I started to blog to get more experience writing, but ended up pointing to other posts and resources more than creating my own.  My goal is to write more original pieces. 

Of course, I paused during the busy holiday period, a trip back east, a few conferences, the Olympics, and the arrival of Hannah, our new daughter who arrived from Seoul last fall.  Lousy excuses, but it's all I got. 

Stephanie West Allen (watch for her blog launch soon) and Larry Bodine have both encouraged me to blog anew.  Larry linked to my blog today, driving traffic to my old and crusty content, so I figured I should put something meaningful (ha!) up soon.  The last time Larry linked, my traffic went through the roof, so I can't disappoint. 

Thanks for stopping by, dropping e-mails and your kind comments. 

Mark Beese