Tag: Art of War
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What lawyers can learn from the U.S. Navy SEALs
The politics, morality and socio-economic consequences of Osama Bin Laden’s death will undoubtedly be discussed for years to come, and this blog is certainly not the place for that debate. I would however like to stake my claim to being the first commentator to raise the issue of what lawyers can learn from the incident,…
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Law firms and the death ground?
No, not a commentary on carnage wreaked by the credit crunch, but another return to the world of warfare for some thoughts on law firm change. In my last post I mentioned Robert Greene’s excellent book “The 33 Strategies of War”, and was particularly interested in the section on creating a sense of…
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Do you want to win?
Last week I started reading what is probably the second most famous text on military strategy (after Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War“); Carl von Clausewitz “On War“. I’ll be honest – it’s not an easy read. My reason for reading was not that I was plotting any sort of immediate show of armed force…
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