It seems like everywhere you turn today people are asking who is going to lead innovation. People frequently ask me what’s the best way to drive the adoption of project management principles in the legal business, and my answer has invariably been that any real change must be driven by clients (i.e., the corporations shelling out $300 billion annually for...
I like oatmeal. It has been around forever and I eat it a lot. Project managers have also been around forever. When they built the pyramids in Egypt or the Great Wall in China there was likely someone there who planned, directed, monitored and controlled the work. Although clearly the workers back then were not anything like the organized labor...
As far as I can tell, at the most basic level, all organizations exist to do two things: activities intended to sustain daily operations, and activities designed to improve and grow the business. I don’t know any organization in which the purpose or goal is to drive the business into the ground. For clarity, the first of these things, operations,...
Most CEOs and corporate leaders would say that a core mission of any company is to maximize shareholder value and/or protect the company’s assets. With nearly every “document” in the world being created on a computer today and a company’s information clearly being one if it’s assets, why wouldn’t information governance or, as they say in corporate legal circles, compliance,...
I think GDPR is a Movement If you’re data footprint on the world is anything like mine, in recent weeks you’ve been bombarded by updates to data privacy policies from every company or site that has your email address. Frankly, I don’t think I’ve seen movement on an legal issue like this since the Y2K panic nearly 20 years ago....
As part of a training series within his organization, a good friend recently asked me to speak to up-and-coming leaders about time management. I begin to research the issue and I keep coming across materials suggesting that teaching time management is a waste of time. The fact is –and I guess I already knew this and my research merely confirms...
Paralegals are definitely project managers. Whether you’re traveling a long distance, going on a short road trip, or just heading out to buy dinner, the most important piece of information you need is where you’re going, right? To figure out how you are going to get somewhere, you must know your destination. While this is more difficult as we traverse...
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