Beyond knowledge management to better management
Richard Susskind likes to be provocative. And, he's good at it. After hearing his talk at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, I found my mind churning with ideas of what it might be like if his vision became our reality. However, I soon felt stymied by the enormity of the challenge of changing... Continue Reading →
Michael Melcher believes that thinking like a lawyer is bad for a lawyer's career. He lays out his interesting arguments in a recent piece for the ABA Journal. Here are the lawyerly attributes that he believes handicap lawyers when thinking about their own careers: • Analyze rather than explore. • Focus on flaws and potential... Continue Reading →
I'm a wimp. There. Now you know. Since I was kid I've happily walked away from blood and gore on the screen. Horror movies? You can keep them. Disaster scenarios? Don't want them. Nasty cops and robbers shows? They are yours too. The Sopranos? Fuhgeddaboudit. The problem is that with the openness of social media,... Continue Reading →
In a prior post I talked about how to sort out priorities for your knowledge management department by imagining what you would choose to focus on if you were trying to do it all by yourself. Now, here's a tougher thought experiment: What if your law firm believes that in the short term it cannot... Continue Reading →
Do we really have as much control over our KM department priorities as we'd like to think we have? I asked variants of this question during a follow-up conversation based on my prior post, What's Your KM Priority? In the course of this second conversation, we took a look at how our various law firms... Continue Reading →
In celebration of Easter, here's a present that will delight. Best of all, it is low-calorie and will not enrage your dentist. Enjoy! How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual by Pamela Spiro Wagner First, forget everything you have learned, that poetry is difficult, that it cannot be appreciated by the likes of you, with... Continue Reading →
As New York City slowed down this week in anticipation of the Passover and Easter holidays, I was speeding up in an attempt to "get everything done" before the holidays. Since I'm congenitally unable to leave things well enough alone, I found myself asking "What is it that am I racing around to get done?"... Continue Reading →
A friend at another firm e-mailed me today thanking me for my earlier post, What's Your KM Priority? In her e-mail she said, To me KM has to be `strategic' to avoid being depressing. On this gray, rainy day in New York City, I know exactly what she means. The purpose of strategy is to... Continue Reading →
Today is a day for confessions. While I place a very high premium on honesty, I have given myself leave to be "economical with the truth" in one particular area: when an online service starts asking for my personal data, I start obscuring the facts. For example, why does any social media platform need to... Continue Reading →
We know that failure is necessary for innovation. In fact, experience shows that repeated failure usually precedes a major breakthrough. So then, why do we constantly run from failure when we should be planning for it? According to Scott Anthony, it's because the cost of failure is perceived to be so high that we don't... Continue Reading →
Above and Beyond KM 