by Bruce | September 14, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The world’s leading business media have written at length—in pieces both speculative and just-the-facts—about scenarios for global metropolitan areas post-Coronatide, and in our humble microdot of the media universe, Adam Smith, Esq. has also published “Whither the...
by Bruce | August 13, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
If one is looking for an image to encapsulate the Covid-19 “Slingshot” phenomenon, you will find an embarrassment of riches. But this has to be one of our favorites. In 8 weeks–a heartbeat in a human lifetime–the penetration of online retail...
by Bruce | August 4, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management
Perhaps I should have said upfront in Part 1, but it’s never too late: In this series I’m discussing the office after humanity has re-emerged from the global isolation ward this dratted pox has lowered on us all. I am not discussing, and have no interest in,...
by Bruce | July 26, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
The world is well into the greatest “natural experiment” in WFH ever seen. No one glided into this; it came as abruptly as an on-off switch. I’m sure the experience at Adam Smith, Esq. was fairly typical: One week (spanning the end of February and the start of...
by Bruce | July 10, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Practice Group Management, Recruiting
We will be participants on a webinar about the inefficiencies in traditional practices in entry-level recruiting and how firms might “build back better” in that area in the new reality. In particular, we will be discussing more data-driven approaches to...
by Bruce | July 6, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Recruiting
The other day we were presenting a webinar (what else?) on “The Lawyer of the Future” to a firm’s summer associate class, now in the midst of their remote (what else?) June and July program, and the quite rational question came up, “What do associates need to know?”...
