by Bruce | January 3, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The Lawyer (UK) is out with its Global 100 for 2004 and their gloss on the raw statistics, understandable given their perspective, highlights the different approaches to globalization taken by UK and US firms. One strategy to adopt vis-a-vis globalization...
by Bruce | January 1, 2005 | About the Site, Articles
Happy New Year to all my readers, from New York. I’ll be watching the Times Square ball drop, as I hope you will as well, in whatever time zone you’re in (and no, I haven’t been foolish or drunken enough to watch it in person for many...
by Bruce | December 31, 2004 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Finance, Just Plain Interesting, Strategy
I just finished reading Tombstone: A Lawyer’s Tales from the Takeover Decades (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1992) by Lawrence Lederman, former chairman of the corporate practice at Milbank-Tweed (and still a partner there), who started his career as...
by Bruce | December 30, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Strategy
A theme I want to develop, and which I’ve alluded to before, is the impact that "Practice Group Management" can have on a firm’s strategy, cohesiveness, and profitability. What is "practice group management," in a nutshell? ...
by Bruce | December 28, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Technology strategy
You may not be familiar with the name Michael Schrage, but as an early founder of MIT’s path-breaking Media Lab, and as a gifted writer no matter the topic, he’s someone I read whenever I come across him. His latest piece is in the elastic and...
by Bruce | December 27, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
Back from four days in California (Laguna) for Christmas, seeing my wife Janet’s parents. No matter how many Christmas’s I have spent in California or, earlier in my life, Florida (Sarasota, where my parents retired), I simply cannot get used to...
