by Bruce | September 14, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The world’s leading business media have written at length—in pieces both speculative and just-the-facts—about scenarios for global metropolitan areas post-Coronatide, and in our humble microdot of the media universe, Adam Smith, Esq. has also published “Whither the...
by Bruce | August 4, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management
Perhaps I should have said upfront in Part 1, but it’s never too late: In this series I’m discussing the office after humanity has re-emerged from the global isolation ward this dratted pox has lowered on us all. I am not discussing, and have no interest in,...
by Bruce | July 26, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
The world is well into the greatest “natural experiment” in WFH ever seen. No one glided into this; it came as abruptly as an on-off switch. I’m sure the experience at Adam Smith, Esq. was fairly typical: One week (spanning the end of February and the start of...
by Bruce | July 6, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Recruiting
The other day we were presenting a webinar (what else?) on “The Lawyer of the Future” to a firm’s summer associate class, now in the midst of their remote (what else?) June and July program, and the quite rational question came up, “What do associates need to know?”...
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...