by Bruce | July 18, 2009 | Articles, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Geoff Colvin is a “Senior Editor at Large” at Fortune and a fairly prolific author. I greatly enjoyed his 2008 Talent Is Overrated, which combined the distilled results of hundreds of research studies with lively profiles of such superstars as Tiger...
by Bruce | July 17, 2009 | About the Site, Articles
You are reading the one-thousandth column I’ve published on “Adam Smith, Esq.” since launching the site at the very end of 2003.Who knew?The credit, of course, goes entirely to you, Dear Readers, for the warmth, generosity, and consistent insights...
by Bruce | July 16, 2009 | About the Site, Articles
A minor kerfuffle seems to be brewing about disclosure (which is, to us securities lawyers, God) by online citizen journalists about products/services they endorse. When the topic hits The New York Times you know it’s official, and the FTC has also posted...
by Bruce | July 10, 2009 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Profiles of Individuals, Strategy
Last week I had a chance to sit down with Tomasz Wardynski, founding partner of Wardynski & Partners, based in Warsaw, which is now a firm of close to 250 people including 137 lawyers with 22 partners, of whom 9 are equity and 13 are salaried or limited partners....
by Bruce | July 8, 2009 | About the Site, Articles
In about two months (September 12) it will be exactly 400 years since Henry Hudson first “rode the flood tide up a great estuarine river on the North American continent looking for a passage to Oriental riches.” Put in more familiar terms, they...
by Bruce | July 6, 2009 | Articles, Leadership, Strategy
In this environment, one of the most insightful resources on management in challenging times has been Prof. Don Sull of the London Business School, who publishes a column under the auspices of the Financial Times. He recently observed: “In the recent boom,...