by Bruce | June 21, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Eric Beinhocker, a fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute (a "think tank," in the oddly quaint but apt phrase), is out with what may be one of the most provocative books on economics in several years—though admittedly I haven’t even seen a copy...
by Bruce | June 20, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
You know that your approach to decision-making—your decision-making "style," if you will—needs to change as you progress from associate to junior partner to (perhaps) practice group leader to member of the executive committee. But precisely...
by Bruce | June 19, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Anticipating change, for example change in the landscape of what practice areas are hot, can seem a fool’s errand, but I’d like to suggest that it’s not. We all know that "chance favors the prepared mind," and I’d like to try to...
by Bruce | June 16, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
I recur fairly often to the topics of management and leadership, mostly because they’re the hardest game in town. (And yes, we could have a Talmudic debate about how "management" is and is not "leadership," but since my goal is to...
by Bruce | June 11, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
My friend Rich Gary has an enlightening column in the current issue of Law Firm Inc. in which he addresses "Ten Questions CMO’s Must Be Ready to Answer." If all CMO’s came to the table prepared to respond to these as thoughtfully and thoroughly...
by Bruce | June 11, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Although this is really by way of an update to the immediately preceding post, I think it’s worthy of standing on its own because, while it raises essentially the same issue, it approaches it from a sufficiently different perspective that it deserves its own...
