

How to Restructure Teams: Guidance for Enlightened Leaders
In its immediate aftermath, team restructuring commonly anoints both winners and losers. Sometimes overlooked are restructuring’s potential insidious, lasting effects on an organization. C-suite executives, organizational leaders, and other relevant decision-makers can leverage the following tips to increase restructuring’s benefits and reduce its human costs and disruptions.

Carlo Cotrone
Jun 10


Why In-House Counsel Should Pursue External Professional Development Opportunities
In-house attorneys sometimes compartmentalize their work lives in counterproductive ways. The hit TV show "Severance" offers instructive lessons: A prudent legal professional both serves their current employer with excellence and is active in the wider professional community.

Carlo Cotrone
May 7


Invention Harvesting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Invention harvesting is a framework for prompting innovators to conceive of new inventions or describe inventions already conceived, and...

Carlo Cotrone
May 1


How Abundance-Minded Leaders Empower Teams for Maximum Impact
C-suite executives in organizations should look beyond tactical excellence to ensure that managerial positions in IP and legal teams are held by highly effective managers and leaders. To help assess the effectiveness of an individual as a manager and leader, executives can determine if, and to what extent, the individual operates with a scarcity mindset or an abundance mindset. A manager who operates with an abundance mindset brings substantial benefits to an organization.

Carlo Cotrone
Apr 16