I don’t know how I missed it, but last week, Jones Day laid off 65 IT workers. Most of them were from my home town of Columbus, Ohio. [UPDATE: It appears the bulk of cuts were in Cleveland, not C-bus. Still Buckeyes though. 🙁 ] As I began reading the article, my
Jane: I recently read a short book by Nilofer Merchant called 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era. In this lovely little tome she draws some powerful conclusions about the impact of the Social Era on business and the opportunity it provides to promote the Onlyness of individuals. Onlyness is the concept that each and every
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Jane: The billable hour is dead, Dan. It is the sad and lonely remnant of an era when clients were to stupid to realize they were being fleeced by outside counsel. I for one can no longer, in good conscience, blatantly steal my client’s money. I officially declare the billable hour
Dan: Recently a number of firms have announced reductions in their secretarial ranks as a means of improving their secretary ratios – which is to say 5:1 is the new 4:1. For those not familiar with this stat – it means that the new goal is 5 timekeepers for every 1 secretary. This approach makes
Hello! And welcome to the inaugural post of our brand new “Dan and Jane” series here on 3 Geeks.
At a conference recently, a fan mentioned that she missed our old Elephant posts. We loved getting outside opinions and ideas, but frankly it was a lot of administrative work and we’re not really administrative people.
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I recently watched a TED talk by Michael Idinopulos, called Mr. Manager, tear down these (digital) walls! It’s a great talk and is well worth your while to view the entire 17 minute presentation. The story he tells beginning at the 2 minute mark
The Legal Duck is a brand new, very exclusive, and extremely expensive restaurant owned and operated by Lena Dewey and Daniel Cheatom, two of the most successful attorneys in our fair city. Last week, we sat down with Lena and Dan to discuss their new endeavor…
3 Geeks: So, what inspired you two to
How are you? So good to see you again. It’s been so long? When was the last time we…
Oh, wait. No! Somebody lock that door! Don’t let him out! You guys, each grab an arm and sit him down in this chair.
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OK. Calm down… It’s alright. No one is
I am fantabulized by the vehemential angertude with which people have arguponded Greg’s post on the word “literally”. I have no more amorosity to the upsidrong definition of literally than anyone else does, but language evolvopes. The strength of the English language is its adoptationability. Words have hardplace definitions, but they are at best temporational. In time, “literally”
