by Bruce | February 10, 2008 | Articles, Book Reviews, Strategy
Rarely do I review books that disappoint, but there’s a first time for everything, and I want to report that in my opinion David Nasaw’s 850+-page Andrew Carnegie (Penguin: 2007) is skippable. This is a shame. Carnegie, aside from being perhaps...
by Bruce | July 14, 2007 | Articles, Book Reviews, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
A couple of weeks ago, the two volume history of the firm of Allen & Overy arrived FedEx from Europe. I had just recently learned that the books existed, and the firm was kind enough to send me them when I expressed interest. When they arrived, they...
by Bruce | June 20, 2007 | Articles, Book Reviews, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
If you are fascinated as I am by the congeries of issues lying at the intersection of the "partnership ethos" and "corporate-like management," then you need to be familiar with the work of Dr. Laura Empson, as highlighted in Aric Press’s...
by Bruce | February 23, 2007 | Articles, Book Reviews, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The relentless onslaught of business and management books often feels (to me, at least) like standing at the bottom of the sluiceways of the Grand Coulee Dam. Fortunately, all but a tiny slice of the dead-tree armada is utterly inconsequential. Of the...
by Bruce | November 8, 2006 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Book Reviews, Globalization
James Buchan, The Authentic Adam Smith (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.: New York, 2006) has recently come out and it is an irresistible selection for this month’s "Adam Smith, Esq." Monthly Book Review. I hope you understand. Buchan, a Brit,...
by Bruce | September 22, 2006 | Articles, Book Reviews
Mark Herrmann, a partner in Jones Day’s Cleveland office (and, notably, a Princeton grad), has published "The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law" (ABA Publishing: 2006), a copy of which he sent me, inscribed "To the Managing...