My favorite one – “Trigger #3: Counsel is out of its league and won’t admit it
Solution: Turn to an expert, or decline the representation”
As much as this article is full of what should be obvious advice, things like this tend to get forgotten on a regular basis!
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I recently purchased a new car, for the first time since 2002. One of the first things I noticed was how “connected” it is, to my phone, to trip data, to various apps, to it’s own internal information etc. Naturally, as an eDiscovery professional, I immediately started wondering about how that data is handled, and…
Among many things, an interesting side-effect of this is maybe people starting to see the reality of HR departments. I think this reality is especially true of law firms, and other organizations where there are owners/founders/partners, and everyone else. HR might encourage employees to bring their complaints, but they might also be powerless to do…
I was contacted a while back by a publicist with Planned Television Arts offering me a free copy of Your Witness: Lessons on Cross-Examination and Life from Great Chicago Trial Lawyers. She explained that even though I am not a lawyer, they really thought the book would be appealing to anyone with an interest in…
I think this assessment of the airline industry is spot on, and we only have ourselves to blame. As much as I’d like say this is a bad strategy, I’m not sure that’s true. I can’t off the top of my head think of a single global airline that attributes their profitability to offering a…
But notice what is missing from all of this advice? Any actual science. Or, for that matter, any interviews with the thousands of people who actually do the same thing, and aren’t nearly as successful. Sure, maybe Jeff Bezos gets up every day at 5 AM, goes for a run, then schedules some deep-think time, all before he even checks email. Do you really think it you or I did that, that would make us as successful as Jeff Bezos? I guarantee you, his sleep schedule and morning routine is similar to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people around the world, who do not have lives that we would want to emulate. But we don’t read those stories, because no one cares.
On the other hand, in order for a lot of these productivity hacks to have ant scientific fact behind them, we would have to look at those people and see how maybe it’s not the morning routine that makes Bezos worth a gazillion dollars, it was something else entirely.
But then, those articles are much harder to write and would involve a lot more work, and even admit that you can’t hack your way to a billion dollars in success. We wouldn’t want to do anything like that, would we?
You may recall me talking about getting a free copy of this short book earlier this month. Today, I finally had some free time to read it at work. It didn’t take long, it’s only about 41 pages long, but I thought I’d share my observations about it. My initial thought was that the book…