by Bruce | September 9, 2004 | Articles, Technology strategy
Speaking of disaster recovery (the preferred term, with a nuanced difference, is "business continuity"), how would you stress-test your plans? Some months ago, I wrote about how the Department of Homeland Security should learn "best...
by Bruce | September 8, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership
No matter how diligent and scrupulous your "disaster recovery" plans may be from the perspective of IT business-continuity and "hot" off-site locations, have you ever considered another type of disaster and the recovery that is required? That...
by Bruce | September 7, 2004 | Articles, Finance
The British publication The Lawyer has published the UK equivalent of the AmLaw 100 called, inventively, the UK 100. While many of the firms will be unfamiliar to a US audience, there are several interesting lessons to be drawn, particularly since The Lawyer has been...
by Bruce | September 5, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
To me, Labor Day Weekend is the symbolic New Year: The start of the academic year, the return of everybody from the beach and the Hamptons (a deeply uninteresting scene to me, FYI), the new fashion/TV/car/serious-movie/serious-book season, and the time when...
by Bruce | September 2, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
One of the themes I recur to here is the indispensable role of leadership, and the ineffability of what makes a great leader. Occasionally a leader will simply "emerge" as the breathtakingly obvious choice, a sort of leader by acclamation (although...