2006
A New Kind of Computer
September 29, 2006 02:30 Filed in:
Technology 3.0
I've got this idea about a simple
little box that would be sold by a big company. The box would be
amazing because it would support most anything a CIO would want to
do. More...
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The Tricky Thing About Power
September 05, 2006 09:00 Filed in:
People 3.0 topic Writing
You have no more
power than you believe you have.
You believed you lost your power over them,
then you indeed stopped exercising it
then you really lost your power ... simply because you lost your belief.
You failed to realize that your true power over them never diminished,
only it seemed to because they, the car
suddenly could drive fewer miles and could climb fewer hills.
"You have no more power than you believe" is not only a limiter, but an enabler.
Over confident people often attempt to exercise more power than they deserve, and ...
when they are successful at exercising it,
actually gain it. --- wjones
You believed you lost your power over them,
then you indeed stopped exercising it
then you really lost your power ... simply because you lost your belief.
You failed to realize that your true power over them never diminished,
only it seemed to because they, the car
suddenly could drive fewer miles and could climb fewer hills.
"You have no more power than you believe" is not only a limiter, but an enabler.
Over confident people often attempt to exercise more power than they deserve, and ...
when they are successful at exercising it,
actually gain it. --- wjones
My Present
September 03, 2006 12:35 Filed in:
People 3.0 topic Writing
As a tide that
flows in and out, where I am in life undulates with the many waves
that also make my movement.
I may be Water, and that is unchanging. That is what you may call my life goal or destination. Yet I see it less a goal and more simply, "what I am", because I believe I now am all that I ever may be. But ...
I may also be at high tide, a status that changes slowly and reflects one of my many passion states. If I approach a passion state once, I know it will become a state ever part of my path, something that I will be nearer to and sometime farther from, but always enroute to ... coming into view sometimes each day, each month or on odd decades. Yet ...
I am also the waves, up and down ... ever swaying as I revisit the tide states of my life. --- wjones
I may be Water, and that is unchanging. That is what you may call my life goal or destination. Yet I see it less a goal and more simply, "what I am", because I believe I now am all that I ever may be. But ...
I may also be at high tide, a status that changes slowly and reflects one of my many passion states. If I approach a passion state once, I know it will become a state ever part of my path, something that I will be nearer to and sometime farther from, but always enroute to ... coming into view sometimes each day, each month or on odd decades. Yet ...
I am also the waves, up and down ... ever swaying as I revisit the tide states of my life. --- wjones
Consider it a Gift
September 02, 2006 09:43 Filed in:
People 3.0 topic Writing
The Journey
September 01, 2006 01:44 Filed in:
People 3.0 topic Writing
For some reason
at this phase of life I feel a need to be less concerned about the
destination and more concerned about the road.
The greatest journey does not always take you to the best destination.
Of course, we all share the same ultimate destination, and it is not life. --- wjones More...
The greatest journey does not always take you to the best destination.
Of course, we all share the same ultimate destination, and it is not life. --- wjones More...
Tombstone
August 31, 2006 01:59 Filed in:
People 3.0 topic Writing
A tough thing
about life in America is that it can often be very lacking in
purpose. We accumulate many things, but little real wealth.
One of the self help exercises I am working on is the writing of my tombstone.
If someone were to summarize my life in a few short words after my death, what would those words to be?
I think that understanding these words will help me better find my true path.
I also hope that once I am on the true path, the emptiness will go away. More...
One of the self help exercises I am working on is the writing of my tombstone.
If someone were to summarize my life in a few short words after my death, what would those words to be?
I think that understanding these words will help me better find my true path.
I also hope that once I am on the true path, the emptiness will go away. More...
The Root of Understanding
August 31, 2006 01:48 Filed in:
People 3.0
"You are the
world, the neighbor, the friend, the so-called enemy. If you would
understand, you must first understand yourself, for in you is the
root of all understanding. In you is the begining and the
end."
If you are very clear, if you are inwardly light onto yourself, you will never follow anyone" ----J. Krishnamurti More...
If you are very clear, if you are inwardly light onto yourself, you will never follow anyone" ----J. Krishnamurti More...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
June 30, 2006 20:51 Filed in:
History
The recent news about Warren Buffet and the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation reminded me of a comment I made to a colleague a
couple months ago. I said, "In thirty years, no one will remember
that Bill did MS DOS or Windows. They won't remember that he was a
hard charging Chief Executive who standardized desktop computing and a
monopolist that often stretched the bounds of fair competition.
They won't even think of him in the context of Microsoft. Instead,
what they will remember will be the Gates Foundation... and Bill,
the philanthropist." More...
Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum
June 18, 2006 21:00 Filed in:
Speaking
Entrepreneurial Opportunities
in Software: Industry Outlook and the New Software as a
Service/Application Service Provider Business Models
When: 8:30 am, Saturday, June 17, 2006 More...
When: 8:30 am, Saturday, June 17, 2006 More...
Construction Notice
June 18, 2006 10:57 Filed in:
Site
Over the months of June and July, you
will see constant construction as information is moved on to and
off of the site. More...
The Best CEOs.
June 10, 2006 10:54 Filed in:
Business 3.0
To provide consistent linking for
Profit Forms, I am creating a RSS feed of the Best CEOs.
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Profit Forms
June 06, 2006 10:50 Filed in:
Business 3.0
Publishing details on Profit Forms for
the first time. The final list will include 33 or 34 different
forms.
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Catching Up
June 06, 2006 01:56 Filed in:
Site
I've published a major site revision.
The new site is more focused, although not nearly as attractive
looking as the old site. I think this is a better layout for my
content, which seemed to get lost in the old site. Please send me
your
feedback.
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Critical Update: Between Second and Third Generation Knowledge Management
May 16, 2006 21:58 Filed in:
Speaking
Scheduled Presentation | 2006 LawTech Summit
Hyatt Regency, Windwatch, Hauppage, NY
May 15-16, 2006
www.lawtechsummit.com
Presentation Outline
• Revisiting what made second generation KM
• Understanding what technology did – and did not do
• The organizational impact of working KM
• The link between KM, CRM, Governance and Business Development
• Is there Knowledge without people?
• Integrating portal, CRM and intranet technology for a seamless flow applying innovation to technology to develop client-centered sites and generate revenue stream and market development of your firm
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Considering Electronic Matter Files
February 01, 2006 22:00 Filed in:
Technology 3.0
Document management will become
the strategic responsibility of the records department - You are in
a great position because you control (as I recall) both Records and
IT. That was essential, because the conversion to Electronic Files
as we call it, is first a product of the Professional
Responsibility Committee (PRC) and Records Department and second a
product of IT. Tanya, who runs our records and conflicts has become
a defacto senior member of my organization ... and Ron, our General
Counsel and head of the PRC is on my speed dial. Records and IT
people have practically eaten and slept together each week for two
years.
There are two conversions: document management and file management – ... And the file management conversion will last at least two years after the DM conversion. We ran two conversions, the standard IT new desktop hardware, new OS, new version of ... and an Electronic Files conversion that’s still underway. If you are like us, they last time you trained all your secretaries on how to use file folders was ... Never. This was a lesson that we learned late, the existence and value of the institutional knowledge on how to manage files for lawyers.
Here are some of the things we had to teach secretaries:
We initially thought that with the Recent Documents, Recent Workspaces, and Favorites features in iManage, we could simply add new matters to the My Workspaces list and that would be it. Imagine a merged support team of 20 people from IT and records, web based surveys of all firm members, a status level of red, yellow, or green for each person as to their ability to work in electronic files.
Each secretary had to be taught nearly one-on-one
independent of the technology conversion that showed secretaries how to use the software, they needed each to be sat down separately from the technology and taught how to manage file folders for their lawyers electronically.
There are two conversions: document management and file management – ... And the file management conversion will last at least two years after the DM conversion. We ran two conversions, the standard IT new desktop hardware, new OS, new version of ... and an Electronic Files conversion that’s still underway. If you are like us, they last time you trained all your secretaries on how to use file folders was ... Never. This was a lesson that we learned late, the existence and value of the institutional knowledge on how to manage files for lawyers.
Here are some of the things we had to teach secretaries:
- How to request custom top level electronic file folders via the New Business Process
- How to manage the primary matter worklist for a lawyer
- How to setup shortcuts to multiple lawyer’s matter workspaces
- How to setup shortcuts and favorites for a lawyer to access his and other folders within matter workspaces
- How to remove items from the matter workspace
- How to re-file large sets of documents
We initially thought that with the Recent Documents, Recent Workspaces, and Favorites features in iManage, we could simply add new matters to the My Workspaces list and that would be it. Imagine a merged support team of 20 people from IT and records, web based surveys of all firm members, a status level of red, yellow, or green for each person as to their ability to work in electronic files.
Each secretary had to be taught nearly one-on-one
independent of the technology conversion that showed secretaries how to use the software, they needed each to be sat down separately from the technology and taught how to manage file folders for their lawyers electronically.