Beyond knowledge management to better management
Yesterday's post, No Time for KM, discussed what happens when present oriented people are not motivated by the promise of future rewards to engage in knowledge management efforts. No sooner had I published it than Jeff Hester rightly pointed out the flaw in my approach: #KM should be intrinsic to our work process. RT @VMaryAbraham:... Continue Reading →
Everyone is busy. No one has enough time. We're racing to get as much done as quickly as possible. Welcome to the real life version of Beat the Clock. If we superimpose on our busy lives the legal industry's focus on the billable hour, we end up with some challenges about how to spend our... Continue Reading →
What dataset informs your mindset? That's the question that Dr. Hans Rosling would ask you if he could. When he probed this issue with his university students in Sweden, he discovered that some of their views in the 21st century were based on a dataset that reflected the reality of ... the 1950s. In fact,... Continue Reading →
Lawyers have many special gifts, but one of the most vexing is the ability to "issue spot." They are trained to take a proposition in both hands and then turn it upside down and inside out until they have identified all the potential problems. This is hugely helpful to a client who is trying to... Continue Reading →
We should have learned our lesson by now: the lesson that one shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Nonetheless, time after time, we rush to judgment with precious little objective evidence to support our position. I was reminded of this when a trail of links led me to some clips from Britain's Got Talent.... Continue Reading →
Kudos to the International Legal Technology Association! The organizers of the ILTA 2012 Conference are putting real effort into finding new ways of turning their already rich educational sessions into true interactive learning opportunities. That's a big change from the presentation mode of three or four experts (with PowerPoint deck) that has been the standard... Continue Reading →
Above and Beyond KM 