• Everyone talks about innovation these days; it’s feels like a pretty overused word. But maybe that’s me?
  • No innovation works unless we get the communication right. Think lowest common denominator and grow from there. That’s hard…but it matters, a lot. In fact it matters more than most realise.
  • If an audience sees and understands how ‘the vision’ that you are trying to share relates to them then their propensity to learn and start implementing will increase.
  • A lot of things that are talked about as being innovative in the legal sector aren’t really. Yep someone had to stand up and say that.
  • A lot of things considered “remarkable” in the legal sector are considered “unremarkable” elsewhere. Yep. In for a penny in for a pound.
  • Creating better tools is important but so is learning how to use the tools we have got, better.
  • Innovators learn about what innovation is needed by talking to lawyers. Lawyers learn about how innovation can help them by talking to innovators. Talk.
  • Stop trying to be something you are not. Celebrate what you are and make it better.
  • Wake up to the reality that fewer people than you think are listening to you. Start creating a reality where more people than you can imagine do listen to you. It will start small but if it offers relevant value they will come.
  • We only need a few innovators but we need lots of communicators and implementors.
  • There are lots of examples of getting things wrong. Great, but not that helpful. I think we all get the picture. Any chance we could start building things that are right, that work, that are useful, that matter, that can start now?
  • Please, more than anything, can we do this together? So we get it right, quicker.
  • Just because something is broken does not mean it can’t be fixed. Breaking is part of the fixing process.
  • The really innovative, disruptive thing hasn’t happened yet but it is coming. That is when the client is brought into the process.
  • Embrace or resist. It is a choice that only you can make.
  • Learn. That makes choices easier, always.
  • Ignore. That makes choices harder, always.
  • Innovation is not a process, a box to be ticked or a defined project to be managed by a dedicated person.
  • I believe lawyers are hugely valuable to a civilised society. I think it is their inefficiency that is drowning the real value they offer. Think one thought as you leave this page, “how can I deliver what I do, better?” Better for the client and better for you.
  • Pssst…don’t tell anyone but I am just as scared as you ;-)
  • Confused? Feel all alone? Don’t worry, that’s normal. Just ask.
  • Here’s the deal. If I can’t help, I’ll help you find someone who can.
  • So random.