{"id":5296,"date":"2006-05-05T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/05\/05\/baseball-haiku-no-longer-a-gu"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:57","slug":"baseball-haiku-no-longer-a-guilty-pleasure-for-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/05\/05\/baseball-haiku-no-longer-a-guilty-pleasure-for-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"baseball haiku: no longer a guilty pleasure for lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Monica Bay will praise<\/A> — not scold — you, if you spend part of this <\/FONT>(or <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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any other) lovely Spring day browsing the <\/FONT>f\/k\/a<\/EM> Baseball Haiku Page<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/A>.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Back on May 1st, Monica noted:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“Beisbol’s on <\/STRONG>everybody’s minds lately: Check out Omega Legal’s <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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white paper<\/FONT><\/A> about how “the business of baseball has reshaped the <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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rules of law firm productivity.”<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“And Jeff Angus’ Management by Baseball:<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> The Official Rules for <\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Winning Management in Any Field,<\/EM> is fresh off the press, from Collins. <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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It asks the question, “Why are baseball managers like Joe Torre and <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Dusty Baker better role models for leaders in business and government <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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than corporate icons like Jack Welch, Ken Lay and Bill Gates?” <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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ment you can learn from baseball.”)”<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Prof. Yabut<\/FONT><\/A> wants to point out, nonetheless, Peter F. Drucker’s<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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cautionary note in Managing in a Time of Great Change<\/EM><\/A> (1995; at 15):<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“There’s a lot of nonsense in team talk, as if teams were<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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something new.  We have always worked in teams, and <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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while sports give us hundreds of team styles, there are <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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only a few basic models to choose from.  The critical <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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decision is to select the right kind for the job.<\/EM>  You can’t <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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mix soccer and doubles tennis. . . . <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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centrate.  You take Joe, who is a batter, and you work <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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on batting.  There is almost no interaction, nothing at all <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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like the soccer team or the jazz combo, the implicit model <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of many teams today.  The soccer team moves in unison <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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but everyong holds the same relative position.  The jazz <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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combo has incredible flexibility because everyone knows <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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each other so well that they all sense when the trumpet <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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is about to solo.”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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. . . “Though we know very little about it, we do realize exec-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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utives must be both managers of specialists and synthesizers <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of different fields of knowledge — really knowledges, plural.”<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Managing in a Time of Great Change<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A><\/DIV>
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Yes, you do need to choose carefully which sports team model <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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best suits your firm’s overall situation — as well as the needs of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a particular client or case.   The f\/k\/a<\/EM> Gang suggests that a bit <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of (nonbillable) reflection over our Baseball Page<\/A> may help in <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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making wise <\/FONT>choices. [beware<\/EM>: they are “<\/FONT>real haiku<\/FONT><\/A>,” note gim-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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micky doggerel; <\/FONT>we think you’ll find them far more satisfying.]<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                       the smallest boy hits<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                       the game winning homer<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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all day rain<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a stray dog<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the toddler<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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– from the haiku chapbook <\/FONT>piano practice<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/A>  <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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crack of the bat<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a dandelion seed floats through<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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george swede<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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law office picnic —<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the ump <\/FONT>consults <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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his Blackberry<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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another generation<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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dagosan<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>\/david giacalone<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"OldBallGameLogo\" You can hear many baseball <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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poems by <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>ed markowski, read by <\/FONT>Joe Harnett<\/FONT><\/A>, longtime <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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radio host of “<\/FONT>The Old BallGame<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/A>” by clicking <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>these <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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links:  <\/FONT>Cut One<\/FONT><\/A>    <\/FONT>Cut Two<\/FONT><\/A>   <\/FONT>Cut Three<\/FONT><\/A>   <\/FONT>Cut Four<\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Monica Bay will praise — not scold — you, if you spend part of this (or any other) lovely Spring day browsing the f\/k\/a Baseball Haiku Page. Back on May 1st, Monica noted: “Beisbol’s on everybody’s minds lately: Check out Omega Legal’s white paper about how “the business of baseball has reshaped the rules of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1nq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12660,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/12660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}