Avoiding Stupidity at Work

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LegalOps Iatrogenics: When a Good Idea Can Go Very Wrong

Mike Tobias: Feb 11, 2024 9:19:15 AM

This is the introduction to what I hope will be an ongoing series of posts. It may be slightly less regular than I’d like, but I’m going to start nevertheless and hope that it forces me to create a new habit.

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Parasitic Integrations vs. Symbiotic

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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Addition Sickness & Software

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

You're Busy. So Don't Hire a Manager!

Mike Tobias: Jun 11, 2023 8:02:41 PM

We're all busy. Chronically so. As Henry David Thoreau said,

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Will AI Fix Work?

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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That's not how you run a company!

Mike Tobias: May 23, 2023 4:51:04 PM

“The human mind is a lot like the human egg, and the human egg has a shut-off device. When one sperm gets in, it shuts down so the next one can’t get in.”

- Charlie Munger

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Petulant CEOs & The Big Miss

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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AI Readiness & Orchestration

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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Avoiding Stupidity: De-Risking LegalTech Decisions

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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The Root of Corporate Legal Team Stress

Mike Tobias: Feb 4, 2022 12:00:00 AM