Global Business Disruption: Getting Unique Perspectives By Sleuthing Paul, Weiss

No one really knows what's happening in global business. The moving parts, intersecting with each other, are being disrupted. In addition to the usual suspects like upstart competition there are conomic uncertainty, geopolitical tensions, generative AI and the cost-efficiency mandate. 

Sure, we follow Goldman's David Solomon, tech's Eric Schmidt and in the trenches GM's Mary Barra.

But anyone who's lost a job or a whole career or catapulted to the top understands this new fundamental of professional success: You have to figure out the whole enchilada - macro, micro, technology impacts, education/training, personal branding and myriad other variables - on your own. Smirk, we boomers remember when we obediently followed all that generically packaged career advice of the 20th century. I got my first op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal after waking up about the foolishness of being a female wearing those cute little bow ties. 

So here we are in the 21st century. The most useful lens I've found for analyzing those moving parts and their noisy grinding against each other is this: struggling to collect/connect the dots on what seems to go on at Big Law firm Paul, Weiss. Then I relay my findings to the clients for my intituive coaching and tarot-reading services. 

My guidance can shift on dime in this volatile context of earning a living. Abruptly I stopped taking on clients intendingto unretire. Too much has happened since they took it easy. 

Since 2020, I have been doing a kind of Sherlock Holmes chasing clues about what Paul, Weiss is up to and what could be the implications for both that sector and others. In addition, I did get a bit inside through a freelance project, being a retainer (which I left after two months because it wasn't a fit for me) and the oldest of intel tools which is listening/talking. 

The chair Brad Karp seems to be a protean entity, resetting with the opportunities and challenges since he was voted in for leadership in 2008. To me, his strategies constitute the canary in the coal mind. He has been an early adopter, ranging from managing a relationship with the Trump administration to developing with Harvey the unique AI workflow tool. Also, last March he went on record in The Lawyer Monthly warning how AI will eat junior lawyer jobs.

In the overall legal sector I had been an influencer until I ran out of fresh perspectives. Currently, as a coach/tarot-reader I have new ones. Or so I'm convinced. 

At Harvard Law School I was a 1L in my early 40s. Before pulling up career routes and taking that mystical journey to that cluster of mystiques which used to be Harvard, lawyers at the Fortune 50 whom I had worked for essentially warned me: Don't go but since you will get out fast. That I did. Returned to speechwriting/ghostwriting. For many satisfying years.

So, where are we? Together, no matter how you're determined to piece together earning a good living, we can get very smart about business. 

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Thrown off your game, maybe the first time since you started working? You made all the right moves and then the world moved in another direction.

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