Miscellany
This post is brought to you from Breckenridge, Colorado, where the temperature is in the 60s in the valley and around 45 at 12,500 feet, people are enjoying one last day of skiing before the resort closes for the season, and a bunch of young lawyers from a Denver firm are in town for a retreat.
That last bit would be why I'm here.
Spotted recently online:
- Produce becomes less nutritious.
- Bruce MacEwen recommends that law firm managers read "The Enthusiastic Employee." He adds, in a comment about how equity is a motivator for employees, "I've often noted that human beings have evolved with an exquisitely tuned sensitivity to inequity and unfairness, and nothing will destroy the motivation of of an enthusiastic employee to go above and beyond the job requirements faster than a whiff of injustice. . . . And how much does it cost you, again, to lose an associate?"
- What's worse than a nail to the head? Twelve nails to the head. That's twelve reasons to stay away from the meth — as though you needed any more.
Update: Retreat was a good time. Saturday included a well-designed and entertaining 'teambuilding' activity not contaminated with some of the trite exercises that tend to pollute conventional corporate 'teambuilding' activities (as one associate put it, "no trust falls!"). We had a nice, casual dinner that night in a beautiful location, and there was plenty of unprogrammed time to visit with each other and enjoy the town. That was far better than the lectures, filling out of forms, and structured discussions about business that constitute some firms' "retreats." I think there's probably more to be gained from the approach my firm chose.
