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Going guerrilla with ideas: Feel the fear and do it anyway
Have you or your team had amazing ideas that you believe in, only to be met with “not now”, “I don’t have the time” or “we have other priorities” from your leadership team?
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It pays to play
Traditionally, work and play have been seen as disparate mindsets. But should work and play be viewed as mutually exclusive?
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Education Spotlight: Spare the Rod
At first glance, I wasn’t convinced that students pursuing their own projects could be effective. How can young students know what they should be prepared for? What if their interests are too abstract? What if they don’t know what skills are most important for them to learn?
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How to become a true design thinker
Design thinking is far more than a methodology. It is a way of thinking that can fundamentally shift your view of the world. Critics of design thinking may blame the process for their failures.
Read moreEducation Spotlight: Design thinking at Riverside School
One of the most exciting aspects of working in design is its vast applicability. I’ve been fortunate enough to use design thinking to enhance learning and teaching experiences and am excited by the rise of human centered design in academic institutions around the world.
Read moreDesign thinking: Making it pay off | The time barrier
Design thinking isn’t about adding to your workload, but changing the way you tackle it. In this article, we’ve collected some quick and dirty strategies that will help you meet your objectives faster.
Read moreDesign thinking: Making it pay off | Intro
In this series, we look at the four biggest obstacles to making design thinking pay off, and show you how to overcome them.
Read moreHow leaders make or break innovation
Hey there, leader I know you’re really busy but….. we need to talk about innovation.
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Why lawyers make great designers. No, really.
In an increasingly competitive market, subject to multiple pressures from evermore demanding clients, advancements in technology, and more businesses offering legal services, law firms have to do something to make them stand out from the crowd.
Read moreWhy remote innovation is a key part of your leadership toolkit
Innovation has become an integral part of the leadership toolkit; due to current global challenges this has rapidly accelerated to a new skillset which focuses on enabling remote innovation…
Read moreSRoundtable: GCs draw their nightmares
Over the past six months, an incessant stream of worries has troubled the minds of in-house counsels across the world…
Read moreSlaughter and May – The Lens: Design thinking – listen to your user… but not too much!
In a legal context, design thinking can be applied to challenges being faced within a law firm, or by clients within their organisations.
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