Consultants say that your job should be outsourced because of __________. Are they wrong?
The downturn in the economy has amplified the calls from management of “justifying your worth” to the firm. Many of us fear the “efficiency experts” (think “The Bobs” in the movie Office Space) coming in and suggesting that the work
How do you build upon the strengths of the administrative people within your law firm – from the mail room to the C-level? We thought of this question after we read a Hildebrandt Baker Robbins blog post called “One Word For Talent.” In that post, Mark Sirkin brings up the fact that firms
“If I could talk to a class of law students, this is what I would say that would help them once they enter the ‘real world’ of working in a law firm.”
Everyone seems to be picking on the way law schools prepare their graduates for the work force… but, what exactly would you do
Tell us something that you spent a lot of money on, support and promote, but just isn’t worth all the money, time and effort?
This question popped up at one of our “Curry and a Pint Nights” and the group started calling out programs, technology, outsourced materials, and even people as examples. When I asked
What do you think is going to be the next legal work process that will get ‘efficiencied’?
We are “borrowing” this question from a comment that Ayelette Robinson made on a previous elephant post. We warned Ayelette that we were doing this and she stepped up this week to answer her own question.
Meaning as we
This question springs from a basic question that I ask every vendor that is trying to sell me their product. I always ask “What is one of the best things that your product does, and your clients don’t seem take advantage of it?” It usually stumps them for a moment, but then a light bulb
This Week’s Elephant Post is:
Did the downturn in the economy give you an opportunity to ‘Rightsize’?
Why do we continue to tolerate slackers or unproductive processes? Come on admit it, you have some products, processes, employees, administrators, associates, partners, etc. that are sacred cows and do not carry their weight. Why do we keep
This week’s Elephant Post question is “When does ‘great’ get in the way of ‘good’?”
The idea behind the ‘Great v. Good’ question is whether the pursuit of perfection causes a paralysis in actually getting something accomplished, or as Scott Preston eloquently puts it – “Don’t over think it, stupid!!”
Whenever I think of this
When does your firm’s culture trump potential innovations you want to put in front of them?
Idea came from a quote in Craig Roth’s Knowledge Forward post, Technology After Culture? Not in a Million Years.
So basic technology evolved before the basic social construct – the family? No wonder I still encounter people spending
The Elephant Series Brainstorming over beer – we came up with a new blog concept and we’re calling it The Elephant. The concept is tackling a topic from multiple points of view. On the first pass, these POVs will come from our stable of bloggers. But then the real fun will come engaging others POVs