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Personal Development – Daily living – Julian Summerhayes

Oh no I hear you cry, not another stream of consciousness. No, the theme is the same: maximisation of our daily resource: time. When did you last fee…

No Turning Back the Clock – Julian Summerhayes

flickr “Yet all things must die. The stream will cease to flow; The winds will cease to blow; The clouds will cease to fleet; The heart will cease to…

MBWA – Managing by Wandering Around – Julian Summerhayes

For those of you who have worked in professional practice, you will all be familiar with the increasing use and demands that Information Technology (…

Innovation in legal practice – Julian Summerhayes

Innovation, if it means anything, involves a hyper intensive focus and possible destruction of the firm’s DNA. It would mean, inter alia, a considera…

Inner peace – Julian Summerhayes

I am sorry that I have been off air for a few weeks. I experienced my first brush with the downside of trying to run a Twitter account through the da…

Focus on the Business of your Business

Blog by Julian Summerhayes. 63 words. Start with the end in mind. Close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Focus on the things t…

Excellence in Professional Practice – Julian Summerhayes

Introduction You will see in the sub-heading to the blog a subtle but important change. My blog is now focused on Excellence (and innovation) in Prof…

Embrace Failure ~ It will change things forever – Julian Summerhayes

The prospect of failure is never far away: You are sued for wrong advice; You lose a client for poor service; or You fail to meet your target. You li…

Change, Urgency and Leadership – Julian Summerhayes

All three are critical to a law firm’s success but never more so than now. Change Law firms need to get comfortable with massive iteration and the oc…

Breathing life into your career – Julian Summerhayes

Are you a linchpin? Is you raison d’être to create something remarkable, or do you merely fit it in, keep your head down and hope that you will get n…

Are we lost? – Julian Summerhayes

Do you remember the last time you were lost? No, I mean truly lost – that sense of heart-wrenching desperation that comes from a deep sense of forebo…

A key strategic skill ~ Listening – Julian Summerhayes

It is the most ignored aspect of our professional lives – listening. Two ears and all that stuff doesn’t tell the half of it. No, listening is a skil…