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Implementing PMBR – getting it right
Proactive Management-based Regulation (PMBR) is the term used to describe regulatory measures or other programs that are designed to strengthen ethical practices by lawyers and subsequently reduce rates of client complaints, disciplinary actions, and malpractice claims. The overall goal of PMBR is therefore to shift the emphasis of law regulation from… [download paper]
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Science 101 for Business Leaders
I can say this because I was trained as one: scientists are geeks. They are lousy team players and most have as much business sense as a test tube. But they have figured out something that businesses can benefit from. It’s widely misunderstood but extremely powerful: the scientific method. photo credit: blondyimp Science is all…
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International Conference of Legal Regulators (ICLR.net) Standpoint feature article – Harnessing data to advance evidence-based regulation
By now everyone is familiar with the wave of “big data” that is invading nearly every aspect of private and public life.There are “recommendation engines” implemented by companies trying to sell to us, “nudge” units in governments prompting us to pay taxes, and exercise and sleep trackers combatting our poor habits. Legal regulators have always…
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Dr. Steve Wilson – The Role of Self-assessments in CLE – CLEreg July 31
This is the talk given by Dr. Steve Wilson to the CLE Regulators conference in Portland, July 31 2018. This version includes speaker notes for reference. [google-drive-embed url=”https://drive.google.com/a/standpointdecisions.com/file/d/1AeCrV6IYxFcL7r7x7eRTRwnKbduDhytB/view?usp=drivesdk” title=”Standpoint-CLEreg.org presentation-final w speaker notes.pdf” icon=”https://drive-thirdparty.googleusercontent.com/16/type/application/pdf” newwindow=”yes” style=”normal”]
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Colorado Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel – AvvyPro Use Case
The Colorado Supreme Court’s Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, led at the time by recently retired James Coyle, embarked in 2015 on an exciting initiative to create the nation’s first online lawyer self-assessment program. The development of the program’s core content involved more than 50 lawyers and several lay people, spanning… Colorado Supreme Court Office…
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Towards an Evidence-based Policy Approach for Law Regulation – white paper
Law regulation is a mix of legislative and regulatory requirements, policy rules, professional ethics and best practices. Navigating this complex landscape is a challenge for regulators, law firms and individual attorneys. The system has evolved over time in response to…
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KPMG paper – Evidence-based HR
Those with a rose-tinted view of how organizations and professionals operate might assume that important decisions are only reached after poring through reams of detailed and relevant information. But the reality is that gut instinct is frequently the dominant decision-making mode in many areas of human activity. For example, it was only in the 1970s…
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Proactive Legal Regulation – Standpoint Review of Global Initiatives and Findings 2014
Traditionally, lawyer regulation has been “reactive” and individualistic – that is, regulators respond to ex post concerns about individual practitioners. Proactive regulation, on the other hand, involves the institutional or organizational context in which lawyers practice, and identifies and addresses potential gaps before they materialize into problems. While there has been some…
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Are You a Maverick or a Maven?
From wiktionary.org: Maverick: One who does not abide by rules. Etymology: from the surname of Texas lawyer Samuel Maverick, who refused to brand his cattle. Maven: A self-styled expert in a given field. Etymology: from Yiddish מבֿין (meyvn) from Hebrew מֵבִין (mevín, “one who understands, connoisseur, expert”). Everyone loves a maverick, but mavens get it…
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Why are Your Decisions Misfiring? The Answer is 42
Eric Fernandez, on his blog The Royal Society of Account Planning has posted an excellent visual guide to cognitive biases. He lists 105 in total, including 42 directly related to decision-making. Many of the other biases are relevant to teams and businesses. My personal favorite? The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy: adjusting the hypothesis after the data…
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Not Hitting Your Numbers? Change Your Metrics
So the big re-org was completed last year, the new strategic objectives are in place and we are dutifully watching our dashboard. But the company is not tracking. Now what? Too often the metrics on which companies rely do little to diagnose problems when things go wrong. This happens because we’re never planning to fail…
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Business Transformation is Now a Continuous Process
There was a time when business transformation was a process that occurred once in a professional career. But cut-throat competition and short development cycles are pushing leading businesses into a state of continuous, low-level transformation. All companies react, but handling transformation proactively requires a plan. How can your company stay out in front? 1. Use…
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Creating an Agile Organization Starts With Decision-making
In today’s fast-changing business environment, organizational agility is of great value to maintaining a competitive advantage. So say the executives surveyed in a 2009 Economist Intelligence Unit report: “Organisational agility: How business can survive and thrive in turbulent times”, March 2009. Ninety percent of interviewed executives believe “organizational agility is critical for business success”, and…
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6 Great Tips to Improve Leadership & Decision Making
Just finished a podcast from the Centre for Creative Leadership on decision making myths, discussion how business executives and leaders can improve their decision making skills. They start off examining the paradox of leadership, and how ego and confidence can be great leadership qualities, yet also handicap team decision-making processes. The problem seems to focus…
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Risk Assessments Are Decisions Too
Risk is a concept that everyone understands and almost no one evaluates very well. Risk is a function of both the likelihood that something will happen and the consequences that result if it does. When evaluating risks we always seem to be more focused on one or the other. For example, driving without your seatbelt…