by Bruce | October 22, 2021 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Client Relationships, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Strategic Client Management, Strategy
We’ve had our corporate checking account with Bank of America for over 15 years. This is the story of why it’s no longer there. A few weeks backI got a letter in the mail from BofA and luckily did not toss it aside unopened as very-likely-spam. It...
by Bruce | August 15, 2021 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Ineffable
Pop quiz: What language has no words for “democracy,” “science,” or “religion?” While you’re mulling that one over, with apologies to one of the great English language rhetoricians and bromide-busters of the 20th Century,...
by Bruce | August 4, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Question of the Month
It’s been awhile since we’ve offered you all up a “Question of the Month,” but we never promised our readers consistency. We hope you have come to appreciate variety, however, so in that spirit, you know what to do: [poll...
by Bruce | August 2, 2021 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Recruiting
In today’s FT, Andrew Hill, their gifted and prolific management essayist, published a column of that name (link works only for FT subscribers) discussing the unheard-of pressures on corporate deal lawyers–partners and associates alike–given the...
by Bruce | July 25, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership
We’ve written that leaving the office was trivial, at least in retrospect–“fire alarm’s going off, everyone leave the building”–but that returning is going to pose one of the most complex...
by Bruce | July 9, 2021 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, M&A, Technology strategy
Scorching new data out on the volume of deal-making over the last 12 months or so, from Refinitiv courtesy of The Wall Street Journal (“Cash-laden companies are on an M&A Spree”). Ready for some once-in-a-lifetime-career numbers?: In the first six...