by Bruce | November 9, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Within 24 hours of each other, both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times wrote pieces on "then and now" re the dot-com bubble. Surely unintentional as it was, I think they provide nice counterpoints to each other, and also give us a small...
by Bruce | November 6, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Every once in awhile, you see an individual at a firm make a tremendous difference, and I’ve tried to make it a custom to celebrate the situations when I think I’ve identified such exemplars. Today I offer John Alber of Bryan Cave’s St. Louis office,...
by Bruce | November 3, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Now that I’ve just written a piece celebrating "quiet" leaders, let’s talk about Andy Grove. To be sure, he’s about as far from "quiet" as you can get, at least on the surface. But according to a new biography, Andy Grove:...
by Bruce | November 1, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Today, let’s contrast the consummate "noisy leader" of recent months—Carly Fiorina, late of Hewlett Packard—with the archetypal "quiet leader" as portrayed by Prof. Joseph Badaracco of Harvard Business School. The...
by Bruce | October 30, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
In 2003, according to the National Association for Law Placement, the attrition rate among associates by their fifth year was 53.4%. (The universe of law firms sampled was not disclosed.) In 2005 (hopefully among the same universe of firms), it was (pick...
by Bruce | October 25, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
I’ve written about "social network analysis" previously, and described some of the initial work in this area by Rob Cross, a faculty member at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. In a nutshell, "social network...