Frans Johansson is an innovation expert and author of The Medici Effect. As CEO of The Medici Group, he leads a team which helps clients improve their innovation efforts through an approach they call Intersectional Thinking: Your best chance to innovate is at The Intersection. Here, concepts from diverse disciplines, fields, and cultures collide to... Continue Reading →
Overcoming Law Firm Irrationality [#ILTA12]
We'd like to think that our advanced education protects us from the dangers of irrationality, but for too many of us that is a delusion. The reality is that unless you are keenly aware of how you make decisions, you may well find that your seemingly logical decisions are riddled with unconscious errors. As modern... Continue Reading →
The Alternative Side of #ILTA12
Of course you're special. Your parents have always known it and now the International Legal Technology Association is acknowledging it too. How is ILTA doing that? By recognizing that each of us has a preferred learning style and, therefore, we need different formats and approaches to facilitate our learning. As a a result, the planning... Continue Reading →
Avoid a Darwin Award
The stories are awful, but you'll find it's hard to pull your eyes away the text. In fact, each story seems worse than the one before. After reading them, you can't help but ask yourself: Can anyone really be that dumb? What stories are these? They are reports of the exploits of the recipients of... Continue Reading →
Had a Bad Day?
httpv://youtu.be/gH476CxJxfg Today was a good day. Really. I had the pleasure of some productive meetings and a chunk of quiet time to get things done. Best of all, I was delighted to find myself on the receiving end of compliments regarding a recently launched law firm knowledge management resource that I've been working on for... Continue Reading →
Curiosity Has Landed
Curiosity has landed on Mars! I must admit that I love the fact that NASA called the Mars rover "Curiosity." To me curiosity is more than a danger to cats, it's the driving force for innovation. NASA has made available some wonderful video of the landing. I watched several times the brief clip below of... Continue Reading →