by Bruce | February 3, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Mark Chandler, a Senior Vice President and the Secretary and General Counsel of Cisco, gave a speech last week in San Diego at the Northwestern School of Law’s 34th Annual Securities Regulation Institute, which has been getting a fair amount of play online, and...
by Bruce | January 30, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
True story related to me this month by a friend who happened to be accompanying a senior and a junior partner through the library of their AmLaw 25 firm, with an eye towards figuring out if the space could be used better: Junior Partner (adamantly): ...
by Bruce | January 25, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
"Goldman Sachs on line 1, Blackstone Partners on line 2—they both want to buy 20% of the firm." Could that be a scenario you, or your successors, will be facing some day? In the UK, something very like it is already happening. ...
by Bruce | January 24, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The coverage has been wall-to-wall, if not deafening, and two things we do not do here at "Adam Smith, Esq." (there are others, trust me) are (1) cover breaking news; and (2) tell you things that we know you already know. So I haven’t yet...
by Bruce | January 19, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
A reader has asked my opinion on "diversity," and while there’s not much new or scintillating to say about its worthy objectives or general feel-good quotient, my approach will be to examine it through the lens of firm performance: Do more...
by Bruce | January 16, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Have you asked your CIO lately whether he thinks IT at your firm is "aligned" with your business? Are you wondering what on earth I’m talking about? If you haven’t immersed yourself in IT management literature (I have), I need to explain that...