by Bruce | July 30, 2018 | About the Site, Articles, Book Reviews
In the spirit of reader service, for those of you who might find the summer season has graced you with a bit more leisure time than usual, and on the hunt for a good book, your editor (that would be me) will list and briefly describe what I have been or am reading...
by Bruce | July 28, 2018 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Michael Lewis’ 2004 bestseller, Moneyball, subsequently made into a movie in 2011, has entered the vernacular. We have Moneyball for government, Moneyball for writing (and awarding) grant proposals, and, yes, Moneyball for lawyers. And its basic premise is hard to...
by Bruce | July 16, 2018 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy, Technology strategy
“Failure to attract and retain top talent” was the number-one issue in the Conference Board’s 2016 survey of global CEOs—before economic growth and competitive intensity. In more complex jobs, this will continue to be true as baby boomers (and their long experience)...
by Bruce | July 4, 2018 | Articles
In Congress, Philadelphia, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which...
by Bruce | June 28, 2018 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership
Something of a detour from our regularly scheduled programming, but we are not living in “ordinary times.” In the immediate wake of announcements from President Trump that he was ordering the end of the policy of separating children from their parents at the border,...
by Bruce | June 27, 2018 | Articles, Book Reviews, Finance, Leadership, Question of the Month
According to the recently released 2018 Altman Weil “Law Firms in Transition” (an annual survey they’ve been doing for a decade with invaluable longitudinal data at this point), in 51% of firms surveyed equity partners are “not busy...
