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Deb Pickett's latest article for Forbes Business Council, "How to Build a Board of Directors — For Your Own Career," counsels leaders to seek guidance from a broad array of guides to help them make key decisions, especially people whose backgrounds and experiences might give them different perspectives. 

Last week, the legal media focused its attention on Well-Being Week in Law, an initiative organized by the Institute for Well-Being in Law to raise awareness of mental health challenges in the legal profession and diminish the reluctance to seek help....

Fourteen months into the pandemic, email overwhelm is a major sources of stress and fatigue for remote workers. It was never easy...

Is an Overreliance on Performance Metrics Steering Your Firm in the Wrong Direction? The last few years have offered any number of object lessons in how different people, faced with the same information, can come to radically different, even opposing, conclusions about what that information means. Still, as leaders, we frame our decisions as being “data driven” or “evidence based” as a way of signaling that they should be beyond dispute. The legal press is full of stories...

By Adam Grant Humans are creatures of habit, and our habits of thought are no exception. At work, these rote behaviors and “best practices” can facilitate efficient training and delivery of services, but when we hold too tightly to the comfort of what we think we know, we eliminate the possibility of change and growth. Being good at thinking — as so many bright lawyers are — can make us worse at rethinking because our certainty makes us ever blinder to our...