by Bruce | September 24, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The annual "Adam Smith, Esq." Reader Survey is actively in progress, and I sincerely urge those of you who haven’t taken the two to three minutes it takes to complete it to do so right now. The point of the survey? Two-fold: I want to...
by Bruce | September 23, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
Over at LegalWeek, the big buzz this past week was all about the results of the annual survey they conduct of US firms operating in London which showed that 47% of respondents would consider a UK merger, up from 39% a year ago and just 29% in 2005. The story was also...
by Bruce | September 22, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization
Yesterday I was privileged to be able to speak to students at Harvard Law School in a talk I titled "Law Firm Finances (and Other Realities): Explained." My invitation came from the office of career services, and I accepted with gratitude and...
by Bruce | September 15, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Now that marketing has become an ingrained function at firms and no longer either an exotic foreign import or an isolated archipelago, it might be time to re-examine how the world’s most sophisticated marketing organizations—consumer packaged goods...
by Bruce | September 12, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
"CEOs and board members, who have been pushing Chief Marketing Officers hard for growth and for more effective marketing efforts, are frustrated by the difficulty of finding chief marketers with the full range of necessary skills. Turnover rates for CMOs are...
by Bruce | September 6, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
As I approach the 800th article I will have published here on "Adam Smith, Esq." (for those of you keeping score at home, this will be #797), I realize some topics are evergreen. It may be because they’re just intrinsically fascinating, as...