by Bruce | June 18, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership
For all the ink that’s been spilled on the evergreen topic of “leadership,” very little of it has issued from the academy: Almost all is the product of management gurus, self-appointed and otherwise. Recent work from Harvard Business School and...
by Bruce | May 27, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
So what’s on everyone’s mind here? Actually, the same things that are on everyone’s minds in the US, although the Brits express it in their own unmistakable and uniquely articulate ways. Here are the key topics: The Hogan/Lovells,...
by Bruce | April 30, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Practice Group Management
For those of you who might be in New York Thursday May 6th and who would be interested in the topic, I would like to draw your attention to a 90-minute program from 5:30–7:00 that evening at the Vanderbilt Suites in the MetLife Building where I will be a...
by Bruce | April 7, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Strategy
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law at p. 1 (1881) Of all the pithy and enduring observations that have been made about our profession (and, yes, our industry), this may be my all-time...
by Bruce | March 31, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Strategy
Did you ever consider that a society’s level of “market integration” (more in a moment) might be strongly and positively correlated with the society’s overall level of fairness? If you haven’t thought about that, time to catch up with the...
by Bruce | March 12, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Not every day do we get what appears to be good news on the much bruited-about topic of the US’s global competitiveness. But courtesy of today’s FT we have just that, in New York ties with London for finance crown. A consultancy with the...