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Linked: Is Your Corporate Culture Cultish?
I think this might apply to much of Silicon Valley, but is there a little bit of this within law firms as well? “What characterizes corporate cult is the degree of control management exercises over employees’ thinking and behavior. This starts with recruitment, where employees are screened for their “fit.” Once in, they then see…
What I’m Sharing (weekly) – May 31, 2020
Best Legal Podcasts for Lawyers in 2020 Corporate rush to insource e-discovery Deepfakes Are Going To Wreak Havoc On Society. We Are Not Prepared. Create a Data Breach Response Plan Before the Inevitable How Social Media Platforms Can Contribute to Dehumanization Re-Opening Your Law Firm: There’s a Bar Association Guide for That! Over 190 Law…
Linked – How Manafort’s inability to convert a PDF file to Word helped prosecutors
This is just dumb: “Manafort emailed Gates a .pdf version of the real 2016 DMI P&L, which showed a loss of more than $600,000,” the indictment claims. “Gates converted that .pdf into a Word document so that it could be edited, which Gates sent back to Manafort. Manafort altered the Word document by adding more…
Linked: Ways to end the taboo of employee departures
Sometimes, things happen. Circumstances change, what we want from our careers changes, and what the current employer can offer us changes. There’s no shame in it, and there shouldn’t be any hard, or awkward feelings about it.
I’d love to see companies get on board with that, but that’s going to require we see our people as people first, and labor inputs second. I’m not so sure some managers are capable of that.
