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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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Mike Tobias: Apr 27, 2016 12:00:00 AM
I always struggle to attend conferences. Partly because I’m introverted, and in part because I’m much more engaged by doing rather than talking about doing. It was a well executed conference, and I think very valuable for many. I felt particularly...
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Mike Tobias: Feb 10, 2016 12:00:00 AM
We all know the great Yogi Berra quote, "It's like deja vu all over again." Deja vu of course is the funny feeling we get that we've experienced something before. Typically, it's used as a way of characterizing something tedious or frustrating that is...
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Mike Tobias: Dec 4, 2015 12:00:00 AM
I'm just a short way into Donald Sull and Kathleen Eisenhardt's excellent book, Simple Rules, and came across a passage that struck me as interesting given the breathless hype we're hearing around Big Data these days.
"Why can simpler models outperform...
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Mike Tobias: Jul 31, 2015 12:00:00 AM
Originally posted July 31, 2015
Isn't work great? Where past performance can make you more of a d-bag?
If you have worked with anyone that has reached a certain age and level of success, you'll instantly connect with the title. It can be an exercise in...
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Mike Tobias: Oct 20, 2014 12:00:00 AM
The number of books, papers, websites, videos and the like, that profess “if you do this, you will be a top performing enterprise,” are laughable. Every self-anointed guru has their sure-fire way to “perform like Apple” or alternately “perform like...
Mike Tobias: Oct 16, 2014 12:00:00 AM
The potential exists for technology, both at home and work, to positively impact our lives. I don't think the net effect of technology is presently positive. Social applications prey on negative and addictive aspects of our personalities and create new...