by Bruce | May 9, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
"Uncertainty sometimes is essential for success." A scientist talking? An NFL coach? A four-star general? Actually, Jerome Groopman, a physician at Harvard Medical School who also writes for The New Yorker. The words are from his new book, How Doctors Think,...
by Bruce | May 3, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Frankly, I’ve written too infrequently about our industry’s deplorable statistics on the ratio of women partners to male partners. I have excuses, but they’re not reasons. Herewith a first attempt to remedy that. This is prompted by...
by Bruce | April 30, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
From HBS’s Working Knowledge, in an article entitled "Do I Dare Say Something?" "Perhaps most surprising to us has been the degree to which fear appears to be a feature of modern work life. Whenever we talk with others about this work, such as on...
by Bruce | April 27, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Could it be that "great teams are less productive?" That’s the headline that got my attention over at Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge. As it turns out, there is understandable tension between "learning" and...
by Bruce | April 24, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Regular readers know that I’ve written periodically about the so-called "Clementi" reforms scheduled to take effect next year in the UK which would permit public ownership of, and investment in, law firms, as well as permitting diversified...
by Bruce | April 20, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Nobody likes to be the weatherman when the forecast is for wind-driven freezing rain, and far be it from me to aspire to that dour post. But based on some indicators such as the Hildebrandt/Citigroup Private Bank March 2007 Client Advisory, which reports that...