Colleagues,

I'm pleased to plug an article I did for the Financial Times Mastering
Management series, which appeared in the Nov. 27 issue, re importance of
law for managers. I hope that George Siedel and the ABLJ editors will be
pleased to see my reference to George's article re Six Forces for
additional reading.

Sorry I couldn't make the Baltimore meeting but I'm still trying to fight
the good fight for our cause here on the banks of the Charles.

Connie Bagley








At 06:57 PM 11/28/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Fred Nickols, the Executive Director of Educational Testing Service, has a
>website that focuses on change management.  In commenting on the people
>skills that are necessary in managing change, he notes:
>
>"The skills most needed in this area are those that typically fall under
>the heading of communication or interpersonal skills. To be effective, we
>must be able to listen and listen actively, to restate, to reflect, to
>clarify without interrogating, to draw out the speaker, to lead or channel
>a discussion, to plant ideas, and to develop them. All these and more are
>needed. Not all of us will have to learn Russian, French, or Spanish, but
>most of us will have to learn to speak Systems, Marketing, Manufacturing,
>Finance, Personnel, Legal, and a host of other organizational dialects."
>http://home.att.net/~nickols/resume.htm
>
>Hope this helps, Bob.
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>From:   Robert Bird [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:   Thursday, November 16, 2000 3:45 PM
>To:     [log in to unmask]
>Subject:        Commonalities between Strategic Mgmt & Business Law, etc.
>
>Hello Colleagues,
>
>I hope your fall semesters are coming along nicely.  There are two questions
>that all of you may be able to shed some light on:
>
>1)I am performing research that draws from papers analyzing strategic
>management and business policy classes.  This research might be useful to
>our discipline.  Is there any literature out there that compares business
>policy/strategic management classes to law practice or law courses?
>Instictively, I can see a similarity because of the skills used, but was
>curious if there was any artciles that discussed or compared the two or at
>least viewed them as somehow analogous.
>
>2) Has anyone seen any articles out there that perform an empirical study or
>otherwise on what employers what from graduating students?  I am sure there
>must be some research out there polling employers who state that college
>graduates need skills A, B, and C lack skills X, Y,  and Z.  If there is any
>specfic research on business people and their comments on undergraduate's
>legal skills, all the better!
>
>Thanks for your assistance in advance!  Please feel free to contact me
>personally or on the listserv.
>
>Robert Bird
>Assistant Professor
>Dept. of Finance and Legal Studies
>Seton Hall University