Katherine Thomas

Do we – in the rush to display our ‘personal brand’ through confidence, presence and certainty, deny room for doubt, curiosity and learning?

States Kennedy, “we have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.”
Society still encourages us to value our work and even our leisure according to the economic value they generate.
But how much longer can this go on?

And when I think this, I remember the power of the small. The power of the personal. The power of reflection. The power of one person’s story to enlighten, provoke, challenge and comfort.

The way we work is not a law of nature. It’s not like this because it has to be. It’s like this because we created it this way.

Conceptual thinking – imagining how things could be – is one of the aspects we’ve covered in our assessments. Results suggest that lawyers score lower for conceptual thinking than the average respondent.

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Katherine Thomas is the CEO of Free Range Lawyers, a collective of people who believe in the power of distributed and remote working to make lives and businesses better. The business connects freelance lawyers who work outside the office with legal service providers looking to flex their resource.

While the relationship between businesses and their staff members in the legal profession might be driven by purpose at this point in time, the future “may look very different”.

If you’re fortunate enough to be one of those people on the planet for whom the concept of ‘holiday’ exists, don’t go ruining it by using work to justify your rest.