Clause & Effect™ | Case Notes ✦

Observations from a life in law, finance, business and everything in between.

Some of this is serious.
Some of it is ridiculous.
Most of it is true.

Short and sweet... and it may just be right up your street.
Case Note 015 – The Date Was Wrong.
Case Note 015 – The Date Was Wrong.
|Marditarl Co. | Clause & Effect™
The Kindness Wasn't.   Observations don't just come from watching life. Sometimes they come from living it.   There are mistakes that reveal care. A birthday celebrated four weeks early... Read more...
Case Note 014 – Everybody Starts With The Same Template.
Case Note 014 – Everybody Starts With The Same Template.
|Marditarl Co. | Clause & Effect™
Not Everybody Finishes With The Same Brand.   Everyone starts somewhere. A template. A theme. A business plan. A logo. A course promising seven figures before breakfast.   None of... Read more...
Case Note 013 – How To Build Absolutely Nothing Together
Case Note 013 – How To Build Absolutely Nothing Together
|Marditarl Co. | Clause & Effect™
Everybody Leaves With A Lanyard and A Glass of Wine   There comes a moment during certain team-building and bonding away days when nobody has actually said anything.   ...boof...... Read more...
CASE NOTE 012 — How To Spot The Controller In A Crowded Room
CASE NOTE 012 — How To Spot The Controller In A Crowded Room
|Marditarl Co. | Clause & Effect™
There's Always One   People imagine controllers arrive wearing a badge. They don't. They arrive wearing helpfulness.   At first, everything sounds perfectly reasonable. "Let's keep communications streamlined." "I'll be... Read more...
CASE NOTE 011 — How Many Cooks In This Boardroom?
CASE NOTE 011 — How Many Cooks In This Boardroom?
|Marditarl Co. | Clause & Effect™
Everybody Wants To Wear The Apron   A single cook can prepare a meal. Put six cooks in the same kitchen and, before long, you'd probably end up with a... Read more...
CASE NOTE 010 — The Matter of AI Didn't Replace Taste
CASE NOTE 010 — The Matter of AI Didn't Replace Taste
|Marditarl Co. | Clause & Effect™
There seems to be a growing concern that artificial intelligence will replace creativity.   After spending a reasonable amount of time working alongside it, I have reached a different conclusion.... Read more...
CASE NOTE 009 — The Matter of the Waiting Committee
CASE NOTE 009 — The Matter of the Waiting Committee
|Marditarl Co. | Clause & Effect™
I have always considered myself a dog person. This information appeared to be of no interest whatsoever to the cats. It actually began with the roosters.   They arrived quietly,... Read more...
CASE NOTE 008 — The Matter of Let's Discuss — The Shoes Finish the Sentence
CASE NOTE 008 — The Matter of Let's Discuss — The Shoes Finish the Sentence
|Marditarl Co. | Clause & Effect™
There is a curious moment that happens just before leaving the office. The laptop closes. The jacket comes off. The calendar finally quietens. Someone suggests a drink. Perhaps dinner. Perhaps... Read more...
CASE NOTE 007 — The Matter of Cease and Desist to You. See-It-Deh! to Me.
CASE NOTE 007 — The Matter of Cease and Desist to You. See-It-Deh! to Me.
|Marditarl Co. | Clause & Effect™
Ideas have always travelled. Long before social media. Long before search engines. Long before someone discovered that changing three words somehow qualified as originality. Good ideas have a habit of... Read more...
CASE NOTE 006 — The Matter of Let's Discuss — Meetings That Could Have Been Emails
CASE NOTE 006 — The Matter of Let's Discuss — Meetings That Could Have Been Emails
|Marditarl Co. | Clause & Effect™
The calendar invitation arrives. Eight attendees. Forty-five minutes. One conference room. Three genuinely useful minutes. Professional life, once again, proceeds accordingly. Meetings have become one of the great curiosities of... Read more...
CASE NOTE 005 — The Matter of Being Busy
CASE NOTE 005 — The Matter of Being Busy
|Marditarl Co. | Clause & Effect™
There was a time when being busy sounded impressive. Now it mostly sounds expected. Calendars are full before breakfast. Notifications arrive faster than they're read. Every conversation begins with the... Read more...
CASE NOTE 004 — The Matter of the Two-Second Scroll
CASE NOTE 004 — The Matter of the Two-Second Scroll
|Marditarl Co. | Clause & Effect™
Attention has become one of the world's most expensive commodities. Not because people have become less thoughtful. Because there is simply more competing for it than ever before. Every day,... Read more...