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Mike Tobias: Jan 9, 2024 10:13:30 AM
Perhaps it’s a byproduct of the winner take all mentality of Silicon Valley. Or maybe it’s a manifestation of a selfish “I gotta get mine” ethos that seems to be growing in our increasingly isolationist society.
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Mike Tobias: Nov 26, 2023 1:30:53 PM
Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao, in their upcoming work entitled "The Friction Project," identify a phenomenon they call "addition sickness" in organizations.1
Mike Tobias: Jun 11, 2023 8:02:41 PM
We're all busy. Chronically so. As Henry David Thoreau said,
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Mike Tobias: May 24, 2023 2:52:45 PM
TLDR: Nope. Sorry, problems with work are bigger than even AI's capabilities.
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Mike Tobias: May 23, 2023 4:51:04 PM
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Mike Tobias: Apr 29, 2023 4:54:19 PM
For one of the first times - in non-unionized, knowledge-based work that is - corporations are being forced to "deal" with the working conditions that their workers actually want rather than enforcing what the company (executives) believe is best. And it...
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Mike Tobias: Apr 22, 2023 2:52:01 PM
I'm not an AI expert. And I don't pretend to fully comprehend what its impact will be. However, I get the same feeling from the currently available forms of Chatbots and AI that I had in 1991 when I was first exposed to the Internet.
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Mike Tobias: Jul 14, 2022 6:17:43 PM
If you’re an in-house counsel, there is little doubt that you are an expert in legal matters. You have the education, experience, and battle scars to bear witness to that. You can mine that vast experience when having to come up with snap judgements and...
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Mike Tobias: Feb 4, 2022 12:00:00 AM
If yours is like most Corporate Legal Departments, you are already swamped with work, and the volume just keeps rising. The hours are long, and getting longer, and help might not be on the way.
Most budgets are not keeping pace with the increasing...
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Mike Tobias: Jan 24, 2022 12:00:00 AM
There are a host of reasons why our work hours continue to climb, even before the pandemic blurred the lines between work and non-work hours. One of the many culprits is the time we now spend on administrative work that we didn’t used to. Why is that?
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