by Bruce | August 21, 2022 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
We distributed this column several weeks ago to our “friends and family” opt-in email list (which has a handsome level of subscribers and is free–what’s taking you so long? [sign up at the foot of our homepage]) but herewith on our public site....
by Bruce | June 23, 2022 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Two plus years after the simultaneous worldwide Office Exodus (“Everybody out of the building!”) at the onset of this pandemic, we are at last beginning to emerge from the by-guess-and-by-golly finger-in-the-air period of figuring out what WFH (thank you,...
by Bruce | June 1, 2022 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
This article was co-written with Janet Stanton, Partner. As you know, we have recently published our thoughts on the likelihood of a recession in the United States: Reasonably high, in a nutshell. We won’t rehearse our reasoning here in detail, but the root cause...
by Bruce | February 17, 2022 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
In our first installment of this two-part series, we left off by asking why the composition of the Fortune 500 across a quarter-century span, from 1995 to 2020—widely thought of as an era of widespread disruption for major corporations—had actually been remarkably...
by Bruce | February 9, 2022 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, NewLaw, Strategy
As glimmers of dawn begin to appear (shock! awe! disbelief!) at the end of our long night of Covid, it seems timely to address the question of how leaders can plan for a new period that is completely unknowable. (I know, I know; “Don’t jinx it, Bruce, by...
by Bruce | October 30, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, NewLaw, Strategy, Technology strategy
This is our original unedited version of an article which our friends at Thomson Reuters’ Forum magazine were kind enough to print in the current issue. Now that they have had it exclusively for a suitable grace period, we reproduce it below for readers of Adam...