Is your relationship on "clock time" or "event time"?

Are you always checking the time?  Do you jump to conclusion based on first impressions?  Do you tend to panic when you find yourself in a difficult situation?  It could be you’re working on “clock time”.  There is another way. Clock time vs Event time Clock time is about efficiency.  It is about productivity, based […]

This Week in Virtual Tools, Collaboration and Learning

Living the virtual life, large?  Spending hours a day online can be more than watching the latest Gangnam Style video (though fun!).  Over the past week, my online work has been a fortunate mix of client activities, virtual learning, monitoring the networks, participating in a community event, and more. Diverse participation in the virtual ecosystem […]

Cultural Gumbo: Collaboration on culturally-diverse teams

Each day, week, month.  I discover how much I still have to learn.  After a recent workshop I gave on conflict management, to Canadian immigrants, at the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria, I’ve upped my belief that getting a grip on cultural differences matters a lot.  And, it matters whenever, and wherever, you find yourself in […]

RIP Dr. Roger Fisher

I cut my conflict management teeth on the work of Dr. Roger Fisher.  His book, Getting to Yes, co-authored with William Ury, and first published in 1981, is the seminal book on interest-based negotiation theory and practice.  Dr. Fisher died this week.  He is a legend in the conflict resolution community.  His legacy includes the […]

Managed Services: The evolution of legal services?

Virtual.  Managed Service.  Value-based.   These are things Axiom Law talk about and offer their clients.  It’s how they see themselves differentiated from the “traditional” law firm, as this schematic from their website shows: Futurist Ross Dawson (@rossdawson on Twitter) highlighted this profile of Axiom in Law Technology News on his weblog recently. Axiom Law is a global […]