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. The first thing you should know is it’s not your fault. You are caught in a classic doom loop.

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?

The forces of change occurring in the industry are fascinating. And having lawyers leading the discussions meant there was no shortage of strongly held opinions and intellectual certainty. On the surface, it appears like the perfect conditions for technology-enabled disruption. Ripe conditions for a serial technology entrepreneur.

"Deja vu occurs when we encounter something new, but it feels as if we've seen it before. Vuja de is the reverse - we face something familiar, but we see it with a fresh perspective that enables us to gain new insights into old problems."

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.

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. Most of it is complete crap. Why?

The potential exists for technology, both at home and work, to positively impact our lives.

If you're a follower of innovative leadership or management practices, you'll no doubt have seen some of the breathless statements about Zappos' planned (or impending) move to Holacracy. What's a Holacracy?

Meta-cognition. Thinking about thinking. In today's harried, data-soaked world, we rarely get time to think about how we think.

In our work helping people to implement Evidence-based management, an understanding of mindset's is vitally important because putting effective practices in place in an organization can be challenging if people don't understand their own mindset.

The tools you use everyday at work have an influence on how you see things and how you approach problems.

There is now a newly recognized neurological phenomenon, which is a cousin to ADD, called Attention Deficit Trait (ADT). My guess is that you'll see a lot of AD traits that we've come to expect at our workplaces.  No matter what industry or size, information overload is affecting us all.

“Most strategies deliver only 63% of their potential financial performance. And more than one-third of executives surveyed placed the figure at less than 50%.”

It seems most technology intended for the enterprise is either being tagged with "social" or "collaboration" monikers these days. We understand the need to put new labels on things to grab attention, but both of these are being vastly overused and in many cases, misused.

Those who were fortunate enough to attend the MIXMashup, were treated to three general themes to start the day: The End of Hierarchy, The End of Bureaucracy, and The End of the Employee.

I don’t know Henry Mintzberg. I wish I did. The way he sees enterprises deeply resonates with me.

Why are corporations so fleeting? After buying data on more than 23,000 publicly traded companies, Bettencourt and West discovered that corporate productivity, unlike urban productivity, was entirely sublinear.

Enterprise ADD? What is that? It's a term I made up. But I'm sure it isn't original (see Sutton's Law).