Teamwork Not Genius

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 →

How Failure Leads to Epiphany

Jonah Lehrer has written a thought-provoking piece on why we too often miss the great opportunities presented by failure. In Accept Defeat:  The Neuroscience of Screwing Up, he explains how our brains purport to "help" us by screening out information that doesn't fit with what we believe we know.  Here's how he describes it: The... Continue Reading →

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