Recent Scott Flegal Columns

Fishing for future clients

Scott Flegal | Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Most professionals never stop searching for the next client. Stockbrokers will tell you that they never stop cold calling, no matter how successful they become. …

Instragram purchase could give Facebook investors pause

Scott Flegal | Wednesday, April 18, 2012

In case you missed it, last week Facebook agreed to pay $1 billion for a small, online mobile photography application company known as Instagram. Instagram …

Departing director’s letter indicts money-grubbing Goldman

Scott Flegal | Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Many of us have resigned from jobs at some point during our careers. Few of us, however, have resigned like Greg Smith did last week. …

To change our situation, it’s up to us

Scott Flegal | Wednesday, February 15, 2012

This isn’t going to be a depressing column, I swear. I must say though, that prior to last week, I had accumulated a substantial amount …

1 company thrives with no managers

Scott Flegal | Wednesday, January 18, 2012

I have never had the pleasure of working in a large organization with lots of managers. Now that I think of it, I have really …

Practice results in true win-win

Scott Flegal | Wednesday, December 21, 2011

I was fortunate to have great mentors in the early years of my legal career. One was Sherm Horton, a legendary Nashua lawyer who ultimately …

Lessons in Penn State scandal

Scott Flegal | Wednesday, November 16, 2011

As the world knows by now, Penn State University is embroiled in a horrible scandal. The complete story is just beginning to emerge, and things …

Deficit reduction, systemic reforms needed to fix business

Scott Flegal | Wednesday, September 21, 2011

How’s business? It seems like I have that conversation about 20 times a day. My clients ask me. I ask them. …

Book examines ethical decisions

Scott Flegal | Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Are we as ethical as we think we are? An important new book by Tufts University professor and Harvard Program on Negotiation mainstay Max H. …

Power a test for male politicians

Scott Flegal | Wednesday, June 15, 2011

There is a famous quote from a letter written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, an English baron in the 1800s, to Bishop Mandell Creighton …