by Bruce | December 30, 2006 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Just Plain Interesting
At "Adam Smith, Esq.," we don’t talk about Adam Smith himself very much, but at year-end it seems appropriate to pay a moment’s homage to this site’s intellectual godfather and, I hope, provide those of you who may not have studied him...
by Bruce | December 26, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
CIO Insight, in partnership with Baseline Magazine, is featuring a year-end review of nearly 230 case studies done over the past five years to distill out the "Top 10 Lessons for IT Project Success." Reading that piece in conjunction with "Top 10...
by Bruce | December 23, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Regular readers will know that one of my themes is leadership, and my belief that it’s, increasingly, a determinant of which firms are "pulling away" and which are maintaining their position or even seeing it slowly erode. I might add, in the...
by Bruce | December 21, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
At the intersection of: technology globalization, and demographics we have, according to Robert Reich (Secretary of Labor under President Clinton and now Prof. of Public Policy at Berkeley), the challenge of "the economics of people" for the next few...
by Bruce | December 20, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Here’s the problem: "According to a study by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, president of the Center for Work-Life Policy in New York, 42 percent of female lawyers take time off — apart from maternity leave — in contrast to 30 percent of women in business...
by Bruce | December 15, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
In a piece in this month’s American Lawyer titled "Turning Point," Dan DiPietro, the head of the Citigroup Private Bank’s Law Firm group, provides quantitative financial support for a theory I’ve long held, that our industry is not just...