Practice Management

Fresh eyeglasses

By Dan Hull

WAC? is interested in serious overachievers, past and present: identifying them, learning from them, having them as friends, hiring them and, above all, never holding them back. Few of us can have Albert Einstein's talent for Western logic, or IQ. But Einstein's advantage over other physicists may have been that he was a "new soul"; he looked at everything as if he were seeing it for the first time. He approached work from a wellspring of joy. Frankly, those are the kind of people who I want as friends to inspire me, and as co-workers to solve clients' problems. But I'll take an IQ a lot lower than Einstein's (for associates, though, Coif or Law Review would be nice). Reverence and awe are two word to describe that outlook. Anyway, in 2007, we saw the book Einstein: His Life and Universe, by the Aspen Institute's Walter Isaacson, a former Time managing editor. From Isaacson's final chapter:

He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. And thus it was that an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the universe, the locksmith of mysteries of the atom and the universe.

Full post as published by What About Clients? on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).