Can replacing hierarchies with a hive mentality transform our profession?
Can replacing hierarchies with a hive mentality transform our profession? Photo illustration by Brenan Sharp/ABA Journal It’s fun to consider the possibility that the core of what humans experience at rock concerts, group fitness classes and flash mob dances might hold a key to improving the functioning of our law firms, law schools and legal communities. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s concept of the “hive switch” might be the jolt our profession needs. Haidt defines the hive switch as “an adaptation for making groups more cohesive, and therefore more successful in competition...
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