by Bruce | October 31, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
My Princeton classmate, outstanding friend, strategic thinker par excellence, and all-around consigliere Malcolm Ryder, now with Pilot Software in Mountain View, schemed without my knowledge to get the following into the Princeton Alumni Weekly’s class notes:...
by Bruce | October 30, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The Global 100 for 2004 is out, courtesy of our friends at The American Lawyer. First, the chart of revenue by rank: This has what statisticians call "a long tail"—and this is only the top 100 firms, recall; imagine what it would look like for...
by Bruce | October 29, 2004 | Articles, Strategy
If you’re not familiar with "secondment," a British-derived military term for temporarily transferring someone from one regiment to another, the time is nigh. In law-land, the context in which it matters is firms "loaning" partners or...
by Bruce | October 27, 2004 | Articles, Knowledge Management
Reminder: I’ll be blogger-in-residence covering the Knowledge Counsel Forum here in New York this Thursday and Friday, so don’t expect any posts during the day—but expect one lengthy one at the end of each day. I look forward to seeing old...
by Bruce | October 27, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
An interlude, and a paean to Movable Type, on which this blog is supported. Last night, with no small amount of trepidation, I upgraded the Movable Type platform I’m running from 3.0 to 3.12—sounds like a small thing, right? That would be, in...