Beyond knowledge management to better management
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 →
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 →
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 →
February 29 is leap year day, an odd day marked by odd customs intend to underline just how unnatural the day really is. Take for example the conflation of Li'l Abner's Sadie Hawkins Day with some older customs that upset the "natural order" by putting women in charge. So we have a day when women... Continue Reading →
The Financial Times recently published an interesting report entitled, US Innovative Lawyers 2011. I encourage you to read that report in its entirety soon. In the meantime, here are some highlights and observations. According to the report, FT's researchers received 272 submissions (including from 53 AmLaw 200 firms) and interviewed more than 300 lawyers and... Continue Reading →
I'm not easily impressed, but today Google impressed me. How? They put an extraordinary "Google Doodle" on their search page in honor of the June 9 birthday of the legendary guitarist, Les Paul. (See video below.) One of the great benefits of living in New York City is that we have access to amazing performers.... Continue Reading →
Some say that the legal profession has raised caution to a high art form. Even so, it is possible to find in every walk of life people whose favorite course of action is to adopt a wait and see strategy. But is this a wise course? Some recent writing about the human tendency to avoid... Continue Reading →
Houston, we have a problem. For years the legal profession has encouraged individual excellence and rewarded individual productivity. In fact, we've come to admire those outstanding lawyers who define the best of the legal profession. Every firm has its legendary lawyer -- the person who defied odds to win an unwinnable case or found a... Continue Reading →
"Been there, done that, got the t-shirt." I'm sure you've heard this expression before -- usually from the mouth of someone who has made a fine art of boredom. However, the person with the t-shirt is rarely looking for the thrill of adventure or the excitement of discovery. Rather, they are most likely trying to... Continue Reading →
There are days when you all really want is to inhabit an alternate reality. For many, the easiest way to approximate this experience is by engaging in a little counterfactual thinking. Wikipedia tells us that Counterfactual thinking is a term of psychology that describes the tendency people have to imagine alternatives to reality. Humans are... Continue Reading →
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