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Above and Beyond KM · 1W ago

KM for the Obese Lawyer

Obesity in America is a problem of gigantic proportions. In fact, ABC News reports that “almost two-thirds of adults and almost one-third of children in the United States are overweight or obese.” Unfortunately, it’s getting worse: …according to a new study out Monday, the n...
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Above and Beyond KM · 3W ago

What Clients Want

What are the key factors that lead to a successful long-term relationship between corporate clients and their outside counsel? LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell (in association with The Global Legal Post) have just released a report of a 2012 survey of in-house counsel in Western Europe that seeks to a...
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Above and Beyond KM · 3W ago

Busted!

Yesterday’s post, No Time for KM, discussed what happens when present oriented people are not motivated by the promise of future rewards to engage in knowledge management efforts. No sooner had I published it than Jeff Hester rightly pointed out the flaw in my approach: #KM should be intrinsi...
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Above and Beyond KM · 3W ago

No Time for KM

Everyone is busy. No one has enough time. We’re racing to get as much done as quickly as possible. Welcome to the real life version of Beat the Clock. If we superimpose on our busy lives the legal industry’s focus on the billable hour, we end up with some challenges about how to spend o...
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Above and Beyond KM · 1M ago

Living in a Fact-Based World

What dataset informs your mindset? That’s the question that Dr. Hans Rosling would ask you if he could. When he probed this issue with his university students in Sweden, he discovered that some of their views in the 21st century were based on a dataset that reflected the reality of … th...
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Above and Beyond KM · 1M ago

What’s Going Right?

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 ...
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Above and Beyond KM · 1M ago

Why Read the Book When You’ve Got the Cover?

We should have learned our lesson by now:  the lesson that one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.  Nonetheless, time after time, we rush to judgment with precious little objective evidence to support our position. I was reminded of this when a trail of links led me to some clips from Britai...
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Above and Beyond KM · 1M ago

Life After PowerPoint [#ILTA12]

Kudos to the International Legal Technology Association!  The organizers of the ILTA 2012 Conference are putting real effort into finding new ways of turning their already rich educational sessions into true interactive learning opportunities. That’s a big change from the presentation mode of...
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Above and Beyond KM · 1M ago

Making Knowledge Exchange Work

Making Good Ideas Infectious is the subject of a brief video that reflects the learning about knowledge sharing gleaned from the Sustainable Learning Project and the Involved Project. While I encourage you to take a look at the video below, here are the seven principles presented in the video for b...
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Above and Beyond KM · 1M ago

Enterprise 2.0 at the State Department

It’s wise to creep out of our law firm silos from time to time to see how people in other walks of life approach knowledge management. Each time I venture out I inevitably discover that some of the challenges facing law firm knowledge management personnel are shared by our colleagues in other...
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