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Meetings should matter-try today to change the way you meet-deal with the most important matter first forget the admin and the blah blah, see www.zeopard.com for my paper on creative meetings.

Looking back at the predictions and suggestions of things we needed to do going into the new millennium and they reveal that little has changed. Taking the time to go back and read books published pre 2000 to look for wisdom and gems we have chosen to ignore is an illuminating process!

Rowdy Mclean delivered an awesome keynote here in NZ on Friday night. He is getting hot and bothered about the cottonwool society. I am absolutely with him on that. One of the ramifications is that we have more laws and more opportunities for our young people to screw up. Time for more personal awareness and accountability-those guys have to run the World in 30 years time, no use if they are locked up or useless.

Finally the elder statesmen of our business community are starting to understand the reasons why they must understand social media and marketing, thanks to the patient and persuasive words of Rod Drury at the IOD this morning. Having run my entire ADLSi presidential campaign using social media and had virtually no interest from the legal profession it was good to hear that accountants are ahead of the game! Possibly though these are signs of further threats to the legal profession as it gets left behind in the dinosaur dump!