by Bruce | September 16, 2004 | Articles, Leadership
A last word (at least for now) on MPF’s: What exactly do they do? Most are in IT and knowledge management, with an increasing number in marketing. "Marketing" remaining a fighting word to some, however, the commitment to marketing varies...
by Bruce | September 15, 2004 | Articles, Technology strategy
IT security, like Mom and apple pie, is something everyone’s in favor of. That’s why it’s interesting to see what an authoritative publication like CIO magazine finds out when it does a survey of the global state of the art (in this case,...
by Bruce | September 14, 2004 | Articles, Finance
Regular readers may have noted, even if subliminally, that I almost never post about an article appearing in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, or similar ubiquitous publications. Why not? Because I assume you’ve already seen it. But rules...
by Bruce | September 12, 2004 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures
Getting partner compensation "right" is an issue I have, and will continue to, recur to. Why? Essentially because I believe that the two extreme models (the strict lockstep and the strict "eat what you kill") each works in only the...
by Bruce | September 10, 2004 | Articles, Globalization
OK, let me be blunt: AmLaw 200 firms are simply too large and too complex enterprises to be managed with any less professionalism and strategic and financial acuity than equivalent-sized corporations. (These days, "equivalent-sized" means about...