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...
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...
by Bruce | May 18, 2020 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Technology strategy
We’ve written that it’s not quite true that we know nothing about “the other side” of this global pox, and currently holding the pole position among things we abruptly realized will look different is that as of, say, 10 weeks ago, we all were used to large-scale,...
by Bruce | May 11, 2020 | About the Site, Articles, Business Models, Client Relationships, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
This column is by Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton What do we know now that we did not know in January? Obviously, we know we’re in the grip of a global pandemic, which has precipitated a worldwide macroeconomic seizure comparable to the Great Depression, and that...
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...
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...