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Letter from New York

by Bruce | June 5, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy

Regular readers are familiar with our periodic custom of penning “Letters from…”when we’ve spent a meaningful amount of time in “…” and want to offer some observations, insights, and commentary on that particular city and market. We’re not traveling. That can mean...

Build Back Better: How to Learn from Coronatide

by Bruce | May 26, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy

A premise of our “Build Back Better” focus du jour (actually, du l’annee) is that we’ve already drastically changed many things about how we conventionally worked, so we can change more. McKinsey has also been thinking (and writing) about this...

Build Back Better: In the Current Crisis, Your Firm Needs You to be Both a Manager & a Leader

by Bruce | April 30, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership

In the second part of this two-part series, Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute published the following article we wrote at their request.  We republish it here by their kind courtesy. In the first installment of this two-part series, we talked about the...

Build Back Better: We Do Actually Know a Few Things About the “Other Side”

by Bruce | April 27, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better

What we do not know about the surreal period we’re in—“Coronatide” is our King of the Hill name for it—would fill the proverbial book, or actually several.  (My sources for what I say, for the record, range  from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial...

Build Back Better: Manager or Leader? Right Now, You Better Be Both

by Bruce | April 24, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Client Relationships, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership

The following column was published on Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute site on April 20, 2020.  We reprint it here by their courtesy. This 2-part series was written by Bruce MacEwen & Janet Stanton of Adam Smith, Esq. Over the past couple of weeks...

Build Back Better: Be a “Non-Anxious Presence”

by Bruce | April 21, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy

The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…” – Rudyard Kipling Ever wondered why clergy seem almost preternaturally calm? I certainly have. Were they born that way and, therefore,...
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