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A distracted world – Julian Summerhayes

“The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser…

Zen and The Art of Lawyering – Julian Summerhayes

I’m playing with this title. Of course, it’s a rip off of Robert Pirsig’s book, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance but actually, the book I pr…

You’re looking in the wrong direction – Julian Summerhayes

â€œMan suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.â€� â€• Alan W. Watts No, it’s not out there. But of course, everyone tells…

Your #USP ~ it’s staring you right between the e-y-e-s – Julian Summerhayes

USP: Unique selling proposition How many times have you found yourself in a situation where you have been asked to elucidate your USP and struggled t…

Your raison d’être: Buy, Beg and Bug for Attention – Julian Summerhayes

Let’s face it, you can’t help yourself. It’s just t-o-o easy. Buy attention – paid advertising Beg [for] attention – PR Bug [for] Attention – direct …

Your People ARE your greatest ASSET – Julian Summerhayes

How many times have you heard this statement? And yet, does anyone – no, I mean, a single person – believe it? If business leaders thought this then …

Your love/hate relationship with law – Julian Summerhayes

It started out as a vision to change the world (however you define that – see The Dip by Seth Godin), make money or have fun (unlikely I know). But h…

Your Internal Compass – Julian Summerhayes

How many times a day do you find yourself having a conversation with yourself? Buddhists call it monkey brain, the ceaseless chattering of the brain….

Your Biggest Competitive Threat for 2011 (and it isn’t ‘Tesco law’) – Julian Summerhayes

Yesterday’s Financial Times (“FT”) headline on page 3: “Legal Firms set for Tesco law’. And there then followed a short piece on the ever pressing da…

You exist to serve. PERIOD! – Julian Summerhayes

photo by chaz ferret “In all, professional relationships with clients have been increasingly recast as business relationships with customers. In a wo…

You don’t want to change – Julian Summerhayes

“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realiz…

You can’t have a social media strategy without a content strategy – Julian Summerhayes

Content is King. So what! If no one is driving the production of the right content, and has a meaningful understanding of what to do with it, then yo…

You… before the business… before the systems – Julian Summerhayes

“That’s exactly the question you have to face: Do you want to change how you are so that you can change your business? Do you really even buy into th…

you are not what you think (not yet at least) – Julian Summerhayes

You will recall a previous post where I referred to the power of positive thinking. Many books have been written on the subject, the most famous of w…

You are more than a label – Julian Summerhayes

“Perhaps your challenge isn’t finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. Peop…

Yes, but what do you think? – Julian Summerhayes

As you’ll have noticed, I’m a sucker for a good quote; but it’s more out of habit than anything else. That said, what I share is not random and the w…

Writing – Julian Summerhayes

I’ve lost count of the number of writing blogs I’ve read. Perhaps it’s me but I can’t think of an equivalent creative endeavour so replete with mater…

Writing – Julian Summerhayes

Previously, I wrote for a living. Not in the classic ‘writer’ sense, but the service that I provided was delivered in written form. I know that I was…

Would you give up Tweeting? – Julian Summerhayes

Have you ever considered why Seth Godin does not follow anyone on Twitter or Tweets save for sending out his blog posts via @ThisisSethsBlog? Having …

Working on your life – Julian Summerhayes

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Our life’s work is never done. Why should it be?…

Work: the only show in town – Julian Summerhayes

The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component …

Work – Part 1 – Julian Summerhayes

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old” ― Peter Drucker I started work in December 1980 as a part-time porter at Pontins Ho…

Work should lift us up not crush us – Julian Summerhayes

“If you don’t work on yourself, then much of your politics is merely projections. We have to walk our talk and do the inner work that allows the oute…

Will things ever be the same? – Julian Summerhayes

“The future feels a lot more like marketing–it’s impromptu, it’s based on innovation and inspiration, and it involves connections between and among p…