by Bruce | July 6, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting
According to The Wall Street Journal, the popularity of economics as an undergrad major is rising: Up 40% in the US in the past 5 years, and the #1 major at Harvard, Columbia, and NYU. Even in Russia and Poland—or, when you think about it, especially...
by Bruce | July 1, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The UK’s The Lawyer has a weekly poll, which as typically befits such "reader candy" items is usually trivial or gossipy, but this one got my attention: "Last week we asked: The Lawyer revealed this week the resignation of White & Case’s...
by Bruce | June 29, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
I promised a more substantive gloss on the AmLaw 100 results, and, while I have not run this by any Ph.D.’s in statistics, I think it tells a fascinating and possibly powerful story—which, more importantly, might even accord with some of the hypotheses and...
by Bruce | June 29, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership
At a meeting at Milbank yesterday, a senior partner had occasion to recount the tale of the pencil-sharpener, which was an actual employee at the firm decades ago.The pencil-sharpener’s role was to circulate throughout the office collecting used pencils and...
by Bruce | June 26, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
Perhaps the most valuable achievement of a highly-functioning Knowledge Management system is the ability to identify a colleague within your firm who has pretty much the exact expertise you’re looking for, when you need it. I call this the "Ask...
by Bruce | June 25, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Technology strategy
CIO Insight has the shortest, sweetest guide to wikis behind the firewall that I’ve yet seen: Wikis are a social innovation, not a technological one. Wikis turn the notion of "permissions" built into traditional knowledge management DMS’s and...