• thoughts you should know… idiot quiz #2
• thoughtleader university… leader biographies
• thoughts and actions… potpourri
• welcome... to our newest thoughtleaders
• thoughtleader spotlight… kudos to our thoughtleaders for their recent victories

 

thoughts and actions...
...potpourri

Writing & Publishing: In the Bay Area, on February 16, our West Coast Manager Patricia Coate speaks to members of IMC NorCal and the general on the topic “ Writing and Publishing to Advance Your Consulting Practice." Click here for details and registration: http://www.imcnorcal.org/pdf/OaklandABConepage.pdf

Million Dollar Consulting: Before the holidays, our Chief Imaginative Officer Ken Lizotte graduated from a week-long Million Dollar Consulting College , conducted by Alan Weiss, author of Million Dollar Consulting and 24 other books. Ken’s report: “The program delivered results even before it officially started, in the form of homework assignments due on the first day. Throughout the week, its impact never let up.” For info on future sessions, click here: www.summitconsulting.com

Process breeds success: A recent study by Bergeron Associates and Insight Management Group on organizational performance practices indicates that process breeds success, as evidenced by this finding: Of the 38% of 100 companies in this survey who reported successful achievement of the majority of their financial, customer and core operational strategic goals, 79% also reported a formal process used by their executives to manage and improve organizational performance. Learn more by clicking here to view the survey’s Executive Summary: http://www.bergeronassociates.com

 

welcome...
...to our newest thoughtleaders

thoughtleader spotlight...
...kudos to our thoughtleaders for their recent victories

• Vicki Donlan, Founder and Publisher of Women’s Business Boston, has signed a contract with Praeger Press to publish her new book, Her Turn: Why It’s Time for Women to Lead in America

• Doug Wolf, Co-Chair of the Trademark Group at Wolf Greenfield, was quoted in the Boston Herald in an article about Tom Brady’s picture appearing on Yahoo’s Fantasy Football page

• “Turning Profit from Company Relocation Is Possible” by Rachel Walls, President of The Golden Gate Company LLC, in IndUS Business Journal

• “Your Service-Selling Pipeline: Six Elements to Keep Business Revenue Flowing” by Brooks Fenno, Founder/President of SALESMARK, in The Independent Consultant

• “Using Design Controls to Reduce Time to Market” by Dave Vogel, President of Intertech Engineering Associates, in Medical Devices & Diagnostic Industries. Dave also authored “Medical Device Forecast & Trends 2007“ for Boston Daily Business News.

• Passion for Reality: Paul Cabot and the Boston Mutual Fund, the new book by Michael R. Yogg, Managing Director at Putnam Investments, has been published in hardcover

• “Why IT Systems have Become the New Utility” by Charles L. Nault, Chair of Atrion Networking Corp., in Indus Business Journal

• “Seven ‘Intelligences’ Template for Leadership” by Nancy Miriam Hawley and Jeffrey R. McIntyre, Co-Founders of Enlightenment Inc., in IndUS Business Journal

• Regime Change: U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11, a new book by Robert S. Litwak, Director of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center, has been published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Press

• “Good Employees Help Boss Up from Fall” by Suzanne Bates, President of Bates Communications, in IndUS Business Journal, an article based on Suzanne’s best-selling book Speak Like a CEO: Secrets for Commanding Attention and Getting Results (McGraw-Hill)

• “Supreme Court Throws Patent Owners a Curve Ball: Allows a Controversial Biotech Patent to Proceed” by Michael T. Siekman, a member of Wolf Greenfield’s Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Interference, and Litigation Groups, and Charles Steenburg, a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group, in BNA’s Patent, Trademark, & Copyright Journal. A version of this article was also published in Mass High Tech. A separate article by Michael, “Accelerated Patent Process May Be Too Good to be True,” ran in Boston Business Journal.

• “Wisely Address the Inevitable: Change” by Renate Rooney, President and CEO of Renate Chisholm Rooney Associates LLC, in Women’s Business

• Shelley Hall, Principal of Catalytic Management Consulting, has been invited to speak before the eWomenNetwork on the topic “Through Customer Retention: 10 No-Fail Practices." Shelley’s article “Turn to Your Customers to Solve Flat Sales and Customer Churn” was published this month in Business Strategy Series 2007.

• “IP Cases: Mediate or Litigate?” co-authored by Michael Albert, Chair of Wolf Greenfield’s Litigation Group, in Intellectual Property Today. Michael was also interviewed by Inside Counsel for an article about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

• Lead With Your Heart by Lewis Green, Founder and Managing Principal, L&G Business Solutions, is scheduled to be published in spring 2007 by HRD Press. It will be Lew’s fifth book.

• “Trends and Hot New IP and Patent Issues in 2007” by Adam Kessel, a member of Wolf Greenfield’s Litigation Practice Group, in Managing IP, in Mass High Tech. Adam also authored “Patent Law” in Managing IP and was quoted in Edd Blog Online on the new federal e-discovery rules.

• Bob Barrett, Director of Systems Engineering with Intertech Engineering Associates, was included in an article in the Boston Sunday Herald called “The Corporate Shuffle”

• “Don’t Guarantee Customer Satisfaction: Improve It” by Vin D’Amico President of Damicon LLC, in his monthly column for IndUS Business Journal. Other recent columns by Vin include: “Patching Software Might Bore You, but It’s Crucial” and “WiFi Mess Just Keeps Getting Worse: Is End in Sight?”

• “Companies Must Find Return in Customer Base” by Steve Lipka, Principal, Avatar Strategic Partners LLC, in IndUS Business Journal 

• Jim Foster, Senior Member of Wolf Greenfield ’s Litigation Practice Group, was quoted in an article on Bloomberg.com discussing the case of Fisher-Price Inc. vs. Safety 1st

• Ilan Barzilay, a member of Wolf Greenfield’s Litigation Practice Group, was interviewed by Trendlines for an article about the future of corporate blogging

• Michael Shenkman, author of The Arch and The Path: the Life of Leading Greatly and President of the Arch of Leadership, was quoted on the value of mentoring in Progressive Rentals Magazine

• Steve Henry, Shareholder, Wolf Greenfield, was quoted in an article on the recent business methods case in Inside Counsel

• Worth Magazine has named Pran Tiku, Founder of Peak Financial Management, to its list of the country’s Top 100 wealth advisors, his third such selection in the past three years

• An interview with our Chief Imaginative Officer (CIO) Ken Lizotte appeared in Incremental Advantage on the subject of blogs and law firms

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Idiot Quiz #2 answers:

1. No, because if a man has a widow, it means that he is dead.
2. They are not playing each other, they are playing separate matches.
3. Two, because that is the number of apples you took away.
4. A nickel and a 50-cent-piece. One may not be a nickel, but the other can be.
5. The match.