by Bruce | September 28, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization
Third and last (at least for now) in our series on the crisis in the Eurozone. Our question for the day is simple: Who believes the Eurozone can survive as currently constituted? As usual, Martin Wolf of the FT has some lucid observations. He starts by...
by Bruce | September 24, 2011 | Articles, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership
Here’s a depressing chart, courtesy of the enthralling and overwhelming All Things Data site Calculated Risk. This shows the percent of job losses relative to the peak employment month for every post-WWII US recession (there have been 11). You can see...
by Bruce | September 16, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization
Some conceptual confusion seems to be surrounding the crisis in the Eurozone, over whether it’s a banking crisis or a sovereign debt crisis. Answer B. Why isn’t it a banking crisis, as the pressures on Societe General, Banco Santander, BNP Paribas,...
by Bruce | September 14, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization
What is going on in the Eurozone? The always sane Martin Wolf writes in the FT: “Perhaps future historians will consider Maastricht a decisive step towards the emergence of a stable, European-wide power. Yet there is another, darker possibility … The...
by Bruce | September 9, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Practice Group Management, Strategy
It’s quite the fashion to want to learn from what Google does, but because so much of what it does is thoroughly sui generis, true opportunities to adopt some of their management wisdom are fewer and farther between than many breathless business correspondents...
by Bruce | September 5, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Recruiting
You might be interested in my reflections on some of the things we can tell from the release of The American Lawyer’s “midlevel associate satisfaction survey.”I actually published that column over at our “sister site,” JD Match/Views....