by Bruce | May 21, 2013 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
We humans like to put things in categories. And while we can get it plain wrong, or mix up two categories benignly or malignly, there’s no question our propensity for categorization—from friend or foe and food to poison, to Linnaeus, to the periodic table, to...
by Bruce | January 22, 2013 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Marketing
Permit me to paraphrase, and hopefully not mutilate, the lead from a recent article on strategy + business, the Booz & Co. (nee Booz Allen & Hamilton) online magazine: It’s a tough world …. New technologies … have permanently changed the [law firm...
by Bruce | March 22, 2012 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Leadership, Marketing
From Allen & Overy’s 2011 Annual Review, which I happened to pick up in a visit to one of their offices last week, come some thoughtful essays you wouldn’t expect to find were it the usual firm’s “higher, faster, bigger, stronger, better,...
