by Bruce | January 14, 2012 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management
This is not a piece about “unknown unknowns.” No, it’s a piece about something that most of us in any position of authority secretly fear we’re doing. Actually, there are two groups of senior people who probably do n’t secretly fear...
by Bruce | January 11, 2012 | Articles, Recruiting
Our other company, JD Match, has organized and is sponsoring an all-day conference on “The Brave New World of Entry-Level Recruiting” for law firms. It will be: In midtown Manhattan at the AMA Executive Conference Center in Times Square Tuesday January 24...
by Bruce | January 4, 2012 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
The always-informative, occasionally juicy New York Times DealBook, written by the tireless and uber-connected Andrew Ross Sorkin, had a year-end wrapup yesterday of 2011 global M&A activity, including a table listing the top 15 law firms (more below), but here...
by Bruce | December 29, 2011 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Every once in awhile–and the calendar’s odometric rollover from one year to the next is as good an occasion as any–it’s wise to stand back and try to gain a little perspective. So it is with Brian Arthur’s October 2011 piece in The...
by Bruce | December 16, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The BBC evidently does an annual review of the economic year as part of “BBC Newsnight,” and they’ve posted the top economists graphs of 2011, “sharing insights into the year’s extraordinary financial developments, particularly in the...
by Bruce | December 13, 2011 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Imagine an industry finding itself characterized as follows: “The good old days of the industry are gone forever.” “Even an improved global economic climate is unlikely to halt efforts to contain spending.” “These factors suggest that the...