September 27, 2006
Sailor or Mountaineer?
In a first, the legendary David Maister hosts this week's BlawgReview, which I bring to your attention for the eclecticism of David's selections.
He does mention an "Adam Smith, Esq." piece reviewing "A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Practice of Law," and endorses my recommendation that Managing Partners should make their firms buy copies for all junior associates (and maybe just plain all lawyers, period).
David also turns up a piece I'd missed, countering the work-life balance lobby, which celebrates lawyers who thrive under pressure that would be "injurious or even fatal" to others.
Finally, he cites as "post of the week" a piece taking off from this Financial Times story mulling over the baffling contradiction between how sailors at sea behave when they learn of another ship or colleague in distress—namely, drop everything, including forfeiting races mid-course, to go to their aid—vs. how mountaineers behave when they see a fellow climber struggling (ignore them utterly, to the extreme of leaving them to die when trivial exertion could have saved them).
Richard Branson is a sailor, Donald Trump a mountaineer. Which are you?
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