Practice Management

Seattle, August, fish-tossing, the usual.

By Dan Hull

It's one of the few U.S. cities with decent and sometimes almost perfect weather in the oft-maligned month of August, named in 8 BC after Augustus, or Octavian, the Roman emperor, for all the great empire-building stuff he did this month. August is not otherwise an austere or fun month for many Americans--ask someone in sticky Chicago, Cincinnati or DC--unless you're headed to Maine, or maybe to the fells of the Lake District in England. But, ah, Elliott Bay; no one photo ever does it complete justice. And every trip to Seattle must include: Pike Place Fish Market, and watching a little fish-throwing. Fish-tossing there spawned a popular business workplace book.

Full post as published by What About Clients? on August 05, 2008 (boomark / email).