by Bruce | April 21, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…” – Rudyard Kipling Ever wondered why clergy seem almost preternaturally calm? I certainly have. Were they born that way and, therefore,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Bruce | October 23, 2019 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Law Schools, Question of the Month
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Maybe lawyers didn’t go on play dates when they were little. (Maybe they didn’t want to.) And, once they get through law school, any shred of esprit de corps has been beaten out of them. This may...
