Back in the 18th and 19th centuries many people kept journals that were called “commonplace books.” They wrote out observations, inspirational quotes, poems they liked, aphorisms, sketches, ideas worth preserving. They mined those collections to keep the insights fresh and the connections between them live. A memory aid, commonplace books…
Back in the 18th and 19th centuries many people kept journals that were called “commonplace books.” They wrote out observations, inspirational quotes, poems they liked, aphorisms, sketches, ideas worth preserving. They mined those collections to keep the insights fresh and the connections between them live. A memory aid, commonplace books…
Another provocative idea is found in Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From – The Natural History of Innovation (Riverhead 2010) at 12. Johnson proposes the 10/10 rule for new technologies in communication: “a decade to build the new platform and a decade for it to find a mass audience.…
Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From – The Natural History of Innovation (Riverhead 2010) at 9-10, explains a fascinating study of cities around the world. The study gathered data on creativity and innovation, such as patents, R&D budgets, “supercreative” professionals, and inventors, and found that a quarter-power law operates…
IMHO, here are the acronyms that crop up the most frequently when the topic is law department management. FYI, for each I added my most recent post that uses the acronym. Don’t LOL, but think of these staples as the marquee TLAs (three-letter acronyms). PDQ, let me know your nominations!…
My friend Greg Bufithis has used his huge network of international staff and colleagues at Project Counsel to create Babel-Law. The site will provide articles, news, and commentary on various legal issues for general counsel — corporate governance, regulation, global competition & antitrust, compliance, litigation & e-discovery, law department management—…
For an offsite or a planning session, a general counsel might solicit opinions from the members of the law department. Several software packages enable low-cost yet powerful means to gather such input. A software program from All Our Ideas, developed at Princeton University, collects opinions but also has an interactive…
A framework evolving slowly for me orients law department management around three broad conceptual systems: the theory domains referred to separately as information, network, and decisions. In the course of gradually fleshing out, understanding, and applying this tripartite framework, I read in Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, why does E=mc2…
The brochure for a KM World conference contains a nutshell description of a session on this topic. The speaker’s blurb includes eight key themes that I quote below and comment on. [1]“communities should be independent of organization structure” – the topic or goal holds the community together, not reporting lines…
New types of entrants in the legal market foreshadow the organization and delivery of legal guidance outside the walls of law firms. In-house lawyers who locate and apply the alternative, available information will to that degree bypass law firms. This inevitability occurred to me as I read Iberian Lawyer, July/Aug.…