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Innovation Is A Red Herring Without Cultural Change
A future-ready company comes from passionate employees who feel confident enough to work together, challenge the status quo, and deliver new insights that will delight clients and grow profits. What does it take to thrive in today’s knowledge economy? If you read commentary from the legal industry, the answer is…
How to really hold people accountable
The topic of “accountability” anchors almost every leadership discussion I witness these days. While I hear the word accountability ad nauseum, what I see are leaders who lack the intestinal fortitude to follow through on the actions that create it. Here are the things you’re doing that are eroding accountability. Taking Control The leadership…
Put Your Creativity to Work (Yes, You)
By Jay Harrington Almost everyone accepts that we are in a time of radical change in the legal industry. Demand for legal services is flat. Entrepreneurs are finding ways to leverage technology to pick away at work — from discovery to estate planning — that once was the exclusive domain of…
Managing Legal Change Initiatives: Strategic approaches to introducing change
The following piece was authored by Patrick J. McKenna for Ark Group’s publication Managing Legal Change Initiatives. The following represents comments that I offered in a recent interview and are based on my three decades of working with large law firms internationally who invariably are trying to execute a…
THE DEATH OF DEFERENCE
Death of Deference By Nick Jarrett-Kerr | Jan 29, 2019 Lawyers have always been a distrustful bunch, but in the last twenty years the growth of larger law firms on the back of increased accountability and performance management seems to have repressed independence of thought amongst professionals, who…
The 4 Brain Superpowers You Need to Be a Successful Leader, According to Neuroscience
Leaders who understand how brains work can make themselves and their teams more nimble, innovative, and resilient. Kevin Chin wants his executives to limber up their brains. Chin’s investment company, Arowana, based in Sydney, Australia, is expanding into London, Los Angeles, and Asia, and “it is imperative to have a senior leadership team…
Why you should stop avoiding conflict in the workplace
When organizations avoid conflict, they’re missing out on productivity and innovation. I was recently hired to help a group of doctors work through their issues and get their business back on a growth trajectory. They aren’t talking much. They’re barely making eye contact. After only a few hours, it’s clear…
Innovations in Your Office’s Technology Can Bring Big Benefits
ActiveCo Tech It may seem like business technology and innovation is stagnating, but we assure you that it’s still constantly improving. It’s often the lack of awareness, leading to lack of adoption, of these technologies that is the problem. Improving data accessibility, and thus, productivity is…
Perception Traps: Distortions and Deficits
Is seeing believing? It should not be. Our perceptions can be superficial and incomplete. Car accident witnesses describe the same event differently. Law firm owners, associate lawyers, and legal support personnel see the same office, but what registers with them varies significantly. We see through our filters without even recognizing…
What Is Cultural Fit and How Do You Hire for It?
Every company has its own corporate culture and proverbial personality. “Corporate culture” refers to a company’s general attitude, which often reflects the mindset of a company’s upper management and serves as a common premise that defines how things are done and what is valued. Company culture is an integral part…
