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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;This week, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Umair Haque&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt; interviewed Twitter CEO &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Evan Williams&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt; at the keynote at this year&#39;s &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;SXSW Interactive Conference&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;. By many accounts, the &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;interview bombed&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;.&amp;nbsp; But as Haque &amp;#8220;gently suggests&amp;#8221; the exchange contained some interesting observations on building a 21&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; Century business&amp;#8212;observations that resonate with many of themes of the recent &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;#mhvt&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;s&gt;discussion&lt;/s&gt; &amp;#8220;Value Tweet&amp;#8221; on the emerging virtual law firm model.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Here are some excerpts of Haque&amp;#8217;s &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;takeaways&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt; which may be relevant to lawyers and &amp;#8220;new model&amp;#8221; law firms:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;Openness as a &amp;#8216;survival strategy.&amp;#8217; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;New ideas, new concepts, new applications &amp;#8212; all flow to open organizations. That&#39;s a great way to express the point that for next-gen organizations, openness is now table stakes: fail at it, and you&#39;re not even in the game. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;Organizing for experimentation.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;i&gt; Though many organizations want to experiment, they can&#39;t &amp;#8212; because they&#39;re not built to &amp;#8230; Twitter organizes for experimentation, by creating modular teams that rapidly iterate to solve tough problems. That&#39;s what 21st century organizations look like: networks, not pyramids. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;Win/wins.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;i&gt; Another theme of our conversation was focusing on win/wins &amp;#8212; a term that&#39;s become cheapened to the point of jargon, but try looking at it anew &amp;#8230; Twitter cuts deals with partners only when they think &lt;/i&gt;&lt;em&gt;everyone wins&lt;/em&gt;&lt;i&gt; &amp;#8212; including end-users. Par for the course? Think again. That&#39;s pretty radical. Wall St, Detroit, Big Food, Big Software and HMOs are just a few for whom win/wins have mattered little, if at all. It&#39;s a simple, powerful way to frame next-gen strategy in a nutshell.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;On that last point, I think we can safely add BigLaw to the list.&amp;nbsp; It seems to me that the (non-cheapened) concept of win/win is a natural complement to the #mhvt theme of &amp;#8220;results,&amp;#8221; e.g., &lt;i&gt;@ShatterboxVox: The issue for client is not VLF vs. trad firm, it is how do I get the results looking for w/ the resources I have&lt;/i&gt;? &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;-posted by brian&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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