by Bruce | October 8, 2021 | About the Site, Articles
A brief note from the Publisher: Apologies to all our loyal readers for not having published anything new for a few weeks, but believe it or not that’s because business travel has actually been back in the calendar. (Together with all the pre-prep that entails...
by Bruce | September 8, 2021 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Strategy
A few weeks ago, the investigation Credit Suisse commissioned Paul Weiss to undertake into how the bank’s relationship with Archegos Capital Management went so wrong–inflicting $5.5 billion of losses on Credit Suisse and a total of $10-billion in losses...
by Bruce | August 15, 2021 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Ineffable
Pop quiz: What language has no words for “democracy,” “science,” or “religion?” While you’re mulling that one over, with apologies to one of the great English language rhetoricians and bromide-busters of the 20th Century,...
by Bruce | August 8, 2021 | About the Site, Articles, Book Reviews, Just Plain Interesting
This column is becoming something of a tradition, and traditions must be maintained. On my desk, and thereabouts, these days: Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, Niall Ferguson Why bureaucratic and complex systems, which seem to promise reliability and predictability,...
by Bruce | August 4, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Question of the Month
It’s been awhile since we’ve offered you all up a “Question of the Month,” but we never promised our readers consistency. We hope you have come to appreciate variety, however, so in that spirit, you know what to do: [poll...
by Bruce | August 2, 2021 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Recruiting
In today’s FT, Andrew Hill, their gifted and prolific management essayist, published a column of that name (link works only for FT subscribers) discussing the unheard-of pressures on corporate deal lawyers–partners and associates alike–given the...
