Matt Dean

Chief Legal & Strategy Officer of ScanSource, Inc. *Personal page - opinions are mine alone and not legal opinions or advice #inhousetwitter

[Matt Dean @TechGC]

@Delta now 2 hours into a 47 minute wait time call to try to change flights after trying both the Delta App and https://t.co/BGXlKeFrPP and having my credit card charged 7 times without actually changing the flight. I guess fraud is easier than actual service.

[Naima Cochrane @naima]

First of all... who edited this? This is amazing work.
https://t.co/nBCUuP6FFD

[Emanuel Miller ✡️ @emanumiller]

This is brilliant.

May 1981. President Ronald Reagan is giving a speech at an Air Force base in West Berlin when a balloon pops loudly. Only two months previously, the President had been shot in an attempt on his life, not long after beginning his first term.

Reagan's response:

[HPC | #HIPCOUNSEL @HipCounsel]

Say what you can’t do.
Say what can’t be done.
Say why it won’t happen.
But.
By time you’re finished speaking someone is already working on the answer.
It’s about mindset.
A future mindset.
A growth mindset.
Some get it. Others don’t.
Ready?

https://t.co/gR5DnqC9mK #hipcounsel

[Sara Kubik @SaraKubik]

Pro-tip legal advice for my tech friends:

If you have a legal question, ask a lawyer.

Googling the answer rarely works.

When you are sick and you Google, you prbly end up calling your doctor.

Same thing here. Legal question = call a lawyer.

Signed, me.
A lawyer + a techhead

[Matt Dean @TechGC]

@LawyerAverage IMO - Find a company you like, go in-house there, and deal with real world issues and helping the company succeed. Less money (though still good $) but infinitely better psychologically.

[Matt Dean @TechGC]

Everyone should experience a #ScanSource Halloween. Kids today will find Toy Story (strong work by legal team), a Haunted House Party (marketing), life-size classic video games (IT) and Monopoly (RFS) and a Race team (HQ) - and that is just some of one building.

[Tim Dillon @TimJDillon]

Here's how you can not offend someone with a Halloween costume. Don't wear one. Be an adult. Give the holiday back to children. Start a family. Buy a house.

[Matt Dean @TechGC]

Too often we forget that the business wins and loses as a team. No department “wins” if the company performs poorly. Adversarial relationships within the business as a waste of time and energy - get aligned and working together.

[Michael Myers Lee @GeekAttorney]

It costs more to get you out of a contract than for a lawyer to review it before you sign. Lawyers are your friends, love us, embrace us, retainer us.

[Matt Dean @TechGC]

Another great add for ScanSource and our customers!

[Canpango, Inc. @canpango]

Exciting news! Canpango has been acquired by @ScanSource (NASDAQ: SCSC). We’re thrilled to continue growing our business alongside fellow tech gurus who support our mission and value our unique expertise. Check out the press release here: https://t.co/NgrALRUjCr

[Matt Dean @TechGC]

Focus on the outcome, not the obstacles. Every obstacle looms large when it is getting the lion’s share of your thinking. Remember the “why” behind the effort and the obstacles become smaller in the face of what can be accomplished in the end.

[Matt Dean @TechGC]

So much truth here

[Timothy B. Corcoran @tcorcoran]

The goal of a
well-run and integrated
legal function isn’t to
reduce legal spending. It’s
to improve business
velocity. @BuyingLegal #blcapac

[Lawyer Cat* @LawyerCat_]

When clients constantly complain about something, then ignore your advice, then complain even more when your prediction comes true

[Matt Dean @TechGC]

“Lessons cost money, good ones cost lots” - Tony Beets (Gold Rush). I love the attitude. Bad things will happen, at a minimum learn the lesson and never repeat it. Really bad lessons bring real opportunity to change for the better (if you can survive it).

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

It’s nice to have the right skills on the bus, but it’s critical to keep the wrong values off the bus.
Values aren’t visible on a resume. They’re revealed in the choices we make: speak up or stay silent, take responsibility or make excuses, lift others up or cut them down
#SHRM18

[Matt Dean @TechGC]

Sworn in to the S.C. bar today with a bunch of kids the same age as my actual kids. I am sure many were thinking how brave I am to go back to law school at my advanced age. If they only New the road of in-house counsel when changing states.

[Whitney Johnson @johnsonwhitney]

We can only rummage through the same rocks for so long and still find diamonds. Eventually it's time to swing our pick into the solid wall of the unknown and begin the work of discovery anew.

[Matt Dean @TechGC]

We are all broken, we just see our own issues without the spin of perfection presented externally by others. https://t.co/wu0KGsfcoK

[Ryan Farmer @Farmerica]

“We tend to overestimate how broken our organization is and underestimate how broken everyone else’s organization is.” - @matthomann #csprcSpectrum