by Bruce | June 24, 2011 | Articles, Leadership, Strategy
June 16 was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, known today as IBM. It’s worth a moment’s reflection on what traits distinguish a company that can survive for a century in an industry, technology, with...
by Bruce | June 22, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Partnership Structures, Strategy
A few days ago The New York Times published an op-ed by Mark Everson, who was commissioner of the IRS from 2003–2007. His thrust was that lawyers and accountants had stopped being watchdogs against business misconduct and instead have become enablers...
by Bruce | June 19, 2011 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Legion are the topics lawyers don’t talk about, and they could perhaps be accurately summarized as “anything we’d prefer not to talk about,” but primary among them is the strength or weakness of their own firms’ business models. So...
by Bruce | May 31, 2011 | Articles, Business Models, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
Last week I wrote about innovation and how the early adopters can gain sustainable competitive advantage. This week is something of a follow-on, albeit one motivated more by recent personal events than frankly by brilliant editorial planning in advance. The variation...
by Bruce | May 30, 2011 | About the Site, Articles
by Bruce | May 23, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Jim Surowiecki, writing his regular column in The New Yorker, “The Financial Page,” wrote last week about innovation and why it seems to take hold in the US before it does elsewhere. Jim is a good read almost any week, but this is a column demanding...
