by Bruce | September 10, 2014 | Articles, Business Models, Technology strategy
This column is by our Senior Adviser, Doug Caddell: A few weeks ago I returned from the 37th annual ILTA education conference, which was held this year at the Gaylord Opryland hotel in Nashville. The Gaylord in Nashville is not my favorite venue. It was cobbled...
by Bruce | September 5, 2014 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management
Lately you’ve seen a few columns here on the topic of leadership: Namely, how to do it well. Invoking the equal time rule, today I want to talk about failed, misguided, and destructive leadership, using two examples from very different walks of life. The first,...
by Bruce | September 2, 2014 | About the Site, Articles
We’re following Horace Greeley’s advice and heading to the Pacific Northwest. Thanks to the generosity of our friends at the LMA Northwest, we’ll be presenting in both Portland and Seattle on “Growth Is Dead: Now What?” Both events are 8:00–9:00 am: Portland on...
by Bruce | September 1, 2014 | About the Site, Articles
by Bruce | August 28, 2014 | Articles
Thought experiment time. I’m going to give you some excerpts from a Harvard Business Review article about how a company sold its workforce on management, and you’re going to work through the implications of what this firm learned for Law Land—where, yes,...
by Bruce | August 21, 2014 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about leadership—something of a first here at Adam Smith, Esq., at least calling it out explicitly by that name—and the topic deserves revisiting and elaboration. My article took off from an HBR piece, Why You Lead Determines How Well...