by Bruce | January 23, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Have no fear that "Adam Smith, Esq." is going to morph into a boot-licking, reverential conduit for re-distributing the year-end natterings of those ink-stained scribes from the MSM and the high-profile consultancies hoping to goose their annual bonus by...
by Bruce | January 23, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Two new blogs of note: David Maister’s "Passion, People and Principles": I sincerely hope you recognize David’s name; if you don’t, I implore you to take an immediate look. His inaugural post is about his "blogging...
by Bruce | January 22, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
As I’ve written before, "Business Intelligence" is here to stay. (And if that’s an unfamiliar or unclear term to you, please refer to the earlier post on this, which serves to introduce the field; and no apologies necessary, as the...
by Bruce | January 20, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Total world cross-border trade as a percentage of global GDP 1990: 18% 2015 (estimated): 30% Computational capability of an Intel processor, as measured in instructions per second 1971: 60,000 2005: 10,800,000,000 Multiple by which e-mail traffic has grown from 1997...
by Bruce | January 18, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Finance, Technology strategy
I’m on the New York State Bar Association’s "Committee on Law Practice Management" and, for the record, I wanted to invite all and sundry who might be in the New York area to our annual meeting Thursday, January 26, 2006, from 1:00—5:00 pm...
by Bruce | January 18, 2006 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Seventeen years before The Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith published his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), nowadays a relatively neglected work which, to my mind, is nearly as astute, deserves far greater current recognition, and which not-incidentally puts pad...
