by Bruce | January 12, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Ram Charan is a name you ought to know if you don’t already. A Harvard Business School MBA and Ph.D. and former HBS faculty member, his books have sold more than 2-million copies, including one I’ve read, Execution, co-authored with Larry Bossidy....
by Bruce | January 11, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management
Daniel Goleman, author of the 1995 best-seller "Emotional Intelligence" (over 5 million copies in print, in 30 languages) is now out with a sequel of sorts, "Social Intelligence," which deals with how we can be smarter in relationships with each...
by Bruce | January 8, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
One of the topics I’d like to devote more time to here on "Adam Smith, Esq." is marketing and business development. It matters. It’s harder than it looks. Some people seem preternaturally gifted at it and others seem to have no...
by Bruce | January 4, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
I got the news on my BlackBerry early this afternoon, but it’s all over the place now (WSJ, American Lawyer, Bloomberg [where yours truly is quoted]): The Dewey-Orrick merger is not to be. I’m sorry. I felt from the beginning it held great...
by Bruce | January 3, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Aric Press, always worth reading, writes in this month’s American Lawyer about potential challenges to the Rosy Scenario common wisdom of leaders of the AmLaw 200. He reports: "So is there anything to worry about for the future of the...
by Bruce | December 31, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Having been tagged separately and independently by J. Craig Williams and by Gerry Riskin to contribute to the meme launched by Stephanie West Allen and Julie Fleming Brown to participate in the "Lawyers Appreciate…" round-robin, I feel it incumbent...