Connect the Dots: Hemingway and the Law (Part 1)
Food for thought: Consider these recent articles:The New York Times reports that onshore LPOs (Legal Process Outsourcers) are offering contract-lawyer jobs starting around $20/hour, or $40K/year… and...
View ArticleConnect the Dots: Hemingway and the Law (Part 2)
Yesterday I wrote about the potential sea change in the business of legal. As a metaphor, I used the Hemingway quote from The Sun Also Rises:“How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways. Gradually, then...
View ArticleConnect the Dots: Hemingway and the Law (Part 3)
In the first two articles of this series (here and here), I’ve riffed on the metaphor of Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises“How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”If change is...
View ArticleHow to Fix Computing, Part 2: A Manifesto of Sorts
(Tomorrow, back to managing projects, people, and teams. But I needed to get this off my chest!)Friday I wrote about why keeping computers functioning — Windows, Apple, smartphones, etc. — is so...
View ArticleConnect the Dots: Book Publishers Are Dying; Amazon’s a Factor, But Not for...
A story in the NY Times today about e-book pricing prompted me to share some thoughts about publishing.Here’s my background. I worked in publishing 1975-1984 or thereabouts. I have published two...
View ArticleConnect the Dots: Facebook IPO and “Done”
(This article is somewhat off topic, but it’s a way of tying a key project management concept into current events.)For the past few days, lots of pundits have been complaining or agonizing over the...
View ArticleOT: Corporate Non-Management (With Security Implications)
A couple of stories in the news this week highlight interesting intersections of corporate and legal worlds. In both cases — Google Street View data snooping and the LinkedIn security breach — there...
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Friday Link: Matt Homann on the Possible Relationship Between Kodak and Law...
Interesting brief article in The [Non] Billable Hour on a possible “Kodak moment” for lawyers.He includes a must-see graph that compares the total number of photos taken per year and the number of...
View ArticleFollow-Up on Kodak and Law Firms
Friday I commented on another writer’s suggestion that it was possible that the demand for lawyers (not legal services, but lawyers) might fall off a cliff the way the taking of film-based photos has...
View ArticleOT: Firing the Maps Guy Isn’t Leadership, Apple, It’s Blamesmanship!
Apple yesterday apparently fired the senior director of the troubled iPhone maps program.Either he did something truly wrong, or he made a mistake for which he’s becoming a scapegoat.If he did...
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Connect the Dots: LED Bulbs
(This article has little to do with Legal Project Management, other than as a discussion of planning for long-term value.)There was an interesting article in the NY Times today about LED lighting. I...
View ArticleCell Phones on Planes: A Simulated Experience (and Not a Good One)
I had a chance to try out the cell-phones-on-lanes thing today. I hate it!No, I wasn’t on an actual plane. I took a four-hour-plus train ride between client cities on Canada’s well-run ViaRail system....
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Save Us From Misguided Computer Security Fails
Sunday brings a terrific cartoon from a very wise woman, Hilary Price of Rhymes With Orange:The password-on-yellow-sticky-note situation these days is an outgrowth not of bad memory – well, maybe a bit...
View ArticleConnect the Dots: Book Publishers Are Dying; Amazon’s a Factor, But Not for...
A story in the NY Times today about e-book pricing prompted me to share some thoughts about publishing.Here’s my background. I worked in publishing 1975-1984 or thereabouts. I have published two...
View ArticleConnect the Dots: Facebook IPO and “Done”
(This article is somewhat off topic, but it’s a way of tying a key project management concept into current events.)For the past few days, lots of pundits have been complaining or agonizing over the...
View ArticleOT: Corporate Non-Management (With Security Implications)
A couple of stories in the news this week highlight interesting intersections of corporate and legal worlds. In both cases — Google Street View data snooping and the LinkedIn security breach — there...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Friday Link: Matt Homann on the Possible Relationship Between Kodak and Law...
Interesting brief article in The [Non] Billable Hour on a possible “Kodak moment” for lawyers.He includes a must-see graph that compares the total number of photos taken per year and the number of...
View ArticleFollow-Up on Kodak and Law Firms
Friday I commented on another writer’s suggestion that it was possible that the demand for lawyers (not legal services, but lawyers) might fall off a cliff the way the taking of film-based photos has...
View ArticleOT: Firing the Maps Guy Isn’t Leadership, Apple, It’s Blamesmanship!
Apple yesterday apparently fired the senior director of the troubled iPhone maps program.Either he did something truly wrong, or he made a mistake for which he’s becoming a scapegoat.If he did...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Connect the Dots: LED Bulbs
(This article has little to do with Legal Project Management, other than as a discussion of planning for long-term value.)There was an interesting article in the NY Times today about LED lighting. I...
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