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		<title>In Praise of Huma Rashid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrilyn Astin Tarlton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been reading a blog called The Reasonably Prudent Law Student. It&#8217;s written by Huma Rashid, a law student who quickly points out that the focus of her blog has long since strayed from a focus on law school and lawyers and now features . . . .well. . . anything &#8220;The Hoomster&#8221; deems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astintarlton.com&amp;blog=18484027&amp;post=151&amp;subd=astintarlton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Give me Your Tired, Your Hungry . . Yearning to Innovate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a very interesting article by Cali Williams Yost at Fast Company online: QUARTERLY EARNINGS KILL PEOPLE BASED INNOVATION. To quote, &#8220;If super smart people believe that innovation is the only way out of this Great Recession, then they need to make the restoration of employee trust, motivation, commitment and well-being as high a priority [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astintarlton.com&amp;blog=18484027&amp;post=78&amp;subd=astintarlton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Ways than One to Practice Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrilyn Astin Tarlton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Myers-Briggs view of the world, lawyers tend to prefer thinking more conceptually than specifically. Perhaps that&#8217;s one explanation for all the recent chatter about the need to &#8220;change business models&#8221; among the law practice management groupies. I think that&#8217;s all great. What&#8217;s not so hot is that these conversations seem almost always to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astintarlton.com&amp;blog=18484027&amp;post=72&amp;subd=astintarlton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Note to Managing Partner: Step Up!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrilyn Astin Tarlton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had coffee this morning with a very creative and effective friend and colleague who is working with a 200+ multi-office law firm. Charged by firm leadership with creating a more effective process for evaluating associate performance and guiding them through standard steps of professional competency, he had put together a strong program . . [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astintarlton.com&amp;blog=18484027&amp;post=74&amp;subd=astintarlton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flop Heard &#8216;Round the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrilyn Astin Tarlton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s impossible to watch the track and field events of these 2008 Olympics without pausing to wonder again at Dick Fosbury and his audacious &#8211; and innovative &#8211; conquest of the high jump event at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.  Under nearly any circumstances, improved athletic performance is a game of hundredths of seconds, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astintarlton.com&amp;blog=18484027&amp;post=60&amp;subd=astintarlton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dream Deferred</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrilyn Astin Tarlton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been exploring the possible sources of innovative thinking in law firms. Wondering where the good ideas come from. . . .why some firms can make amazing things happen. . . what causes and supports the challenge of change in an inhospitable environment.  Here&#8217;s one possibility &#8212; and why in some cases it doesn&#8217;t work. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astintarlton.com&amp;blog=18484027&amp;post=58&amp;subd=astintarlton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of the Solitary Genius</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrilyn Astin Tarlton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This phenomenon of simultaneous discovery &#8212; what science historians call &#8220;multiples&#8221; &#8212; turns out to be extremely common.&#8221; In 1922, when William Ogborn and Dorothy Thomas put together their first comprehensive list of multiples, they found 448 major scientific discoveries that fit the pattern of being made by several individuals at more or less the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astintarlton.com&amp;blog=18484027&amp;post=46&amp;subd=astintarlton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fast Followers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrilyn Astin Tarlton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009 I participated in the Futures Conference presented by the College of Law Practice Management at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.  It was a good program with some excellent and provocative speakers.  Most sessions focused well on the topic at hand:  &#8220;What is going on in the business of practicing law [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astintarlton.com&amp;blog=18484027&amp;post=68&amp;subd=astintarlton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Rock, Esq.?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrilyn Astin Tarlton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, you&#8217;re right.  It does require quit a feat of mental gymnastics to picture comedian Chris Rock at home in the practice of law.  But he uses a technique that most law firms could profit by using. In his world, one where the successful comedian&#8217;s stock in trade is new ideas &#8211; emphasis on &#8220;NEW&#8221; &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astintarlton.com&amp;blog=18484027&amp;post=66&amp;subd=astintarlton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fear is the Enemy of Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrilyn Astin Tarlton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll admit that it&#8217;s hard, indeed, to get focused on business innovation when every management conversation seems to be about downsizing.  But consider for a moment that some of the best ideas &#8211; and most exciting businesses &#8211; came out of hard times. Both Apple and Microsoft were founded in the 1970&#8242;s. . . in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=astintarlton.com&amp;blog=18484027&amp;post=62&amp;subd=astintarlton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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