Are Good Manners A Requirement for Business Success?

Guest Blogger: Stacey Wagner   “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.”  Laurence Sterne  As I sat down to write this business etiquette blog for The Estrin Report, I wondered, are good manners a requirement for business success?  Not surprisingly, the answer is an unequivocal no.  Anyone who has worked in corporate...

Virtual Paralegal’s Gutsy Message: “BigFirm, Listen Up”

Pamela Starr, a virtual paralegal who says she is located anywhere her laptop is, had a strong response to my post this weekend about Jones Day's decision to lay-off non-attorney staff. The 2500 lawyer firm announced last week that it was letting go an unspecified number of legal staff because the jobs can be done by voice mail, e-mail, iPhones and other electronic devices. Pamela, who...

When to Say No to Your Dream Job

Have you ever wondered what might have happened in your life if you had chosen one road over another?  I mean, what really might have happened?     I don’t make a habit of writing about my own experiences but…..a few years ago while minding my own business (literally), I was approached by a major staffing organization (big players – cool $5+ billion a year in...