by Bruce | May 9, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
"Uncertainty sometimes is essential for success." A scientist talking? An NFL coach? A four-star general? Actually, Jerome Groopman, a physician at Harvard Medical School who also writes for The New Yorker. The words are from his new book, How Doctors Think,...
by Bruce | May 8, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
The American Lawyer’s famous AmLaw 100 has been out for about a week now, and it’s time to release some preliminary number-crunching. I’ll also have some more qualitatively analytic pieces in the next week or so, but here are the hot data dots for...
by Bruce | May 5, 2007 | About the Site, Articles
"Dear Reader:This letter continues a custom begun 30 years ago of reporting the progress of The Wall Street Journal to our readers. In the first issue of the Journal, …" So begins the January 2, 2007 annual report of the WSJ to its readers. I intend to...
by Bruce | May 3, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Frankly, I’ve written too infrequently about our industry’s deplorable statistics on the ratio of women partners to male partners. I have excuses, but they’re not reasons. Herewith a first attempt to remedy that. This is prompted by...
by Bruce | April 30, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
From HBS’s Working Knowledge, in an article entitled "Do I Dare Say Something?" "Perhaps most surprising to us has been the degree to which fear appears to be a feature of modern work life. Whenever we talk with others about this work, such as on...
by Bruce | April 27, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Could it be that "great teams are less productive?" That’s the headline that got my attention over at Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge. As it turns out, there is understandable tension between "learning" and...