Practice Management

Paris in black, white and fresh.

By Dan Hull

Work and life. I love both so I do not separate them. They merge.

And their quality depends in large part upon whether I can manage to see conventional things differently--with a sense of surprise. Put another way, can I see routine things--in life and work--as a child would see them for the first time? If I can, it helps me. Helps clients, too. It improves problem-solving at all levels.

Of the countless stays I've had in Paris, I visited the Eiffel Tower just once, on my second trip. Even then I thought it was boring and a waste of time--except I met on the tower a woman named Linda who stayed in my life for nearly 10 years. She was smart, beautiful, regal and hopelessly difficult--but never boring. However, the tower view did not overwhelm or inspire.

So you need to keep changing eyeglasses for work and life. And maybe even the Eiffel Tower. Eye Prefer Paris, which ex-New Yorker Richard Nahem writes from the Marais district, shows how tired landmarks can be interesting again. For example:

Photo: Richard Nahem

Full post as published by What About Clients? on May 25, 2009 (boomark / email).