The fallacy of the cost/benefit paradigm
The exalted cost/benefit analysis is a specious proposition. You cannot predict with (any) precision: The outcome of the case; The costs; The actual benefit to the client. Client: how much will the case…
Don’t leave your personality at the front door
How much of yourself do you bring to the office?
Is it (really) you who pitches up every day?
The critical question:
“Are you a true person of yourself?”
The reason I posit this is because, apart from the uniform, professional practice doesn’t embrace difference. I don’t mean diversity, although that it is important. I mean the weird, contrary or different. Even if that seems too f-a-r o-u-t, the business at hand, and the culture of the firm seems to elide any trace of personality.
Would you take Wilkinson’s Road Traffic Offences on holiday?
Professional practice is a lifelong journey
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