by Bruce | September 21, 2004 | Articles, Technology strategy
That IT professionals can’t "speak" to business professionals and vice versa is a universally recognized truism. (To paraphrase Mae West, "Men and women have nothing in common; all men think about is women, but all women think about is...
by Bruce | September 20, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
"You ain’t seen nothing yet?" That’s our instinctive reaction to the news over the weekend that Boston’s Ropes & Gray may be about to acquire the venerable New York IP shop, Fish & Neave. Fish & Neave would be only...
by Bruce | September 19, 2004 | Articles, Leadership
This pithy article is about leadership in the context of General Counsels, but leadership is leadership and the same observations would apply to practice group managers, Executive Directors, and for that matter CFO’s and CIO’s. Why then do I fear its...
by Bruce | September 17, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership
Starting this past summer, Associate Professor of Law William Henderson, of the Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington and I have been working behind the scenes on the "Law Firm Research Project." Prof. Henderson teaches a course called...
by Bruce | September 16, 2004 | Articles, Leadership
The UK-based "Managing Partners Forum" (MPF), chaired by the managing partner of DLA, describes itself as the association for leaders and management teams in professional service firms. In other words, the group for Executive Directors,...