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How’s Your Business Continuity Plan?

by Bruce | March 2, 2020 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Technology strategy

You do have one, right? In just the past few days, we’ve heard a few firms volunteer that (a) clients are inquiring about their business continuity plans; (b) they’re dusting their plan off; (c.i.) they’re making sure they have one (or [c.ii.]...

Who’s in Charge Here?

by Bruce | February 28, 2020 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, NewLaw, Strategy

Legal Business’s retrospective on the 2010s (“The Vision Thing”)  opens thus: The last decade emerged with the shockwaves of the banking crisis still making themselves felt on the profession. Having just made a series of job cuts in major markets the...

2020: The Year of Law Land Segmentation

by Bruce | January 15, 2020 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy

This article is co-authored by Bruce MacEwen, President, Janet Stanton, Partner and Antonio Leal Holguin, Director – Adam Smith, Esq. Lots of folks have their “Year of….” custom, often retrospectively, but here at Adam Smith, Esq., we’re more...

Ain’t Misbehavin’

by Bruce | December 13, 2019 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy

Not to name names, but does it strike you as it does me that we’re in the midst of a global surfeit of senior leaders behaving badly? Almost every domain of human endeavor seems tarnished, or worse, by malfeasance, broken trust, power abused, or even...

Who’s Your Chief Innovation Officer?

by Bruce | November 13, 2019 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy

Ten years ago (five?) the role of “Chief Innovation Officer” was almost unheard-of.  Now hardly a week goes by without a firm announcing the appointment of so-and-so to that role and title. But what exactly Is a “CINO” and where do (where...

Question of the Month: The Big Four

by Bruce | October 28, 2019 | Articles, Business Models, Question of the Month

You know the drill.  Have at it! Comments box below for, uuhhh, comments: [poll id=”19″]  
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