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Linked – Why Is Innovation So Hard For Lawyers And Firms?
Bob makes some good points in response the Lisa Bodell’s keynote from last week’s ILTA conference. I highly suggest you go read his column. Bodell was a good speaker and an inspiring one. But I felt her message of organizational change failed to take into account one major factor: We’re talking about the legal profession…
Worth Reading – Icebreaker or iceberg
Yes, it’s a dumb question that creates bias and other problems in the hiring process. On the other hand, when you need a job, you need a job. If mentioning something in response to the “outside of work” question creates an interest or connection with the interviewer, it’s to your advantage to do it.
College football is maybe the most white, upper-middle-class version of that. There are others. (Travel, outdoor activities, etc.) We should live in a world where all employers are working to remove this kind of bias from hiring, but we do not live in that world. The one we live in grants an advantage to the job seeker who can find a common interest with the interviewer. You might as well do some research on the people you’re going to be meeting with and turn this bias to your advantage if you can.
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Linked: A Leader’s List Of Mental Health Concerns At Work
There are a number of things in the article below to consider, but this is definitely the most timely:
“A profound lesson from the pandemic supports this theory, when so many people were suddenly relocated to home offices. We discovered (or rediscovered) that productivity rises when we leave people alone for hours at a time to work without interruption. Those gains are lost when we revert to interruptions, expecting employees to respond nearly immediately to endless incoming emails and messages.”
Linked – Let’s talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
As I have said before, if your data is stored somewhere outside your control, it’s only a matter of time before it gets hacked. Your AI assistant will have a lot of private information, making it a prime target.
