About this part of the website…
In this section we have collated all the previously published articles and blogs written mostly by Paul Gilbert, but with guest posts from Jonathan Smith, Justin Featherstone, Carolyn Kirby, Ian White and Barbara Hamilton-Bruce as well.
This is a resource for you to browse and is free to view. The first articles were published in the early 2000’s, but with timeless themes. The later pieces reflect the changing face of the legal profession and the threat/opportunity for the role of lawyers in business and in our society. The 2020, 2021 and 2022 posts focus on a world dominated, saddened and changed by Covid, where questions of leadership, kindness and care are to the fore.
You can search for key words to find the pieces or themes you want to read, and Paul’s articles are also collated in his various books which you can buy from this site too.
There isn’t a “like” or “dislike” button, or a place to leave a comment because we want this to be a resource for reflection rather than action. However, if you would like to talk about anything you see here, Paul will always be delighted to hear from you and you can talk with him at any time about the ideas and the feelings he writes about. Paul’s email is pg@lbcwisecounsel.com.
Take care x
The speech the PM might have made
This is the speech I would have liked our Prime Minister to have made six months after the Brexit referendum vote: “As you know I have for the last 12 weeks travelled up and down the United Kingdom. I have been to schools and colleges, spoken to faith groups and entrepreneurs. I have been to… More
KPI – The Kindness Performance Indicator
I would like to convince you that kindness is a measurable performance indicator and should be a significant measure of success for all leaders and all teams. You may think this sounds like more wellness-bandwagon do-goodery, but I will argue that at the very least kindness is as convincing a metric as any financial “more-for-less”… More
When wishing for change is not enough
On a day in February in 2018 a boy with a gun kills seventeen boys and girls in a school in America. Is this a different mass murder to other mass murders? Past mass murders have seen a broadly liberal press (and their readerships) call for change, but an NRA funded political establishment has resisted… More
What happens to Anna when companies merge?
This is not a piece written from the perspective of a project manager or a strategist. Neither am I writing a worthy best practice guide. What I would like to do is to take you into a small world occupied by one person. She is an in-house lawyer. Let’s call her Anna. Anna has worked… More
Do you love your work?
Love is a very wonderful, peculiar, complex and overwhelming emotion. I wonder therefore when people say “I love my work” what this means? I will be honest I do not love my work. I am not sure anyone should love their work. I expect my work to be necessarily inconvenient. I want my work to… More
