Lots of posts coming up

By Rick Colosimo / October 2, 2009 / Comments Off on Lots of posts coming up

I’ve got a slew of partly written posts that I’m going to be finishing up soon. You’ll see posts here, at Simplifying Complexity, and at ASDworld. I’ve got productivity software reviews, posts about behavioral analysis, and comments on corporate governance. And even a few social media how-to’s. Finally — a question for you: what questions…

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Finding the line between leadership and management

By Rick Colosimo / August 19, 2009 / Comments Off on Finding the line between leadership and management

A manager recently asked how he could go about reconciling his implementation of cultural changes that enhanced the teamwork of his department in the face of corporate-level directives that didn’t support, if not detract from, his plans. This manager did not understand why this company did not want to support his ideas and why employees,…

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Reconciling insurance laws with the free market

By Rick Colosimo / August 17, 2009 / Comments Off on Reconciling insurance laws with the free market

This editorial at the WSJ talks about some commonly advanced alternatives to  current health-care/health-insurance reform legislation. As a law student, I took a whole class on insurance law; I practiced insurance defense law (in mass torts, not individual personal injury cases); and I’ve studied the economic principles relating to insurance law (in fact, I keep…

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Why do legal opinions matter?

By Rick Colosimo / August 12, 2009 / Comments Off on Why do legal opinions matter?

In a recent post referring to Ted Wang’s “simple series A” proposal, I noted that I would separately discuss legal opinions. Non-lawyers, and lawyers new to transactional practice, have probably never really heard of a legal opinion or what it does. Briefly, the legal opinion letter is a carefully prepared document that is designed to…

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