by Bruce | August 21, 2013 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
In our first installment we talked among other things of driving leadership down into the organization and encouraging people to experiment. I closed by noting that nothing would happen unless (a) people throughout the firm were genuinely engaged with the project; and...
by Bruce | August 16, 2013 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Years ago one of my very favorite Managing Partners said to me, “We’ll know BigLaw is mature as an industry when a firm in need of a new Managing Partner does what every Fortune 500 company has done at one time or another—runs up I-95 to Fairfield,...
by Bruce | August 6, 2013 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
One lens through which to view a large part of the corpus of business and management literature is that of metrics. Simply consider how much of what’s written consists of discussions about what to measure, what to optimize, and how to enhance all those numbers....
by Bruce | July 26, 2013 | Articles, Finance
There seems to have been a spasm an unusual concentration of articles recently advancing the theory (I generalize) that all is well in BigLaw and that in fact even the universally acknowledged cost/benefit mismatch of a JD degree is mistaken. Regular readers know that...
by Bruce | July 23, 2013 | About the Site, Articles, Book Reviews, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Actually, this is for all our readers, but for those of you in the Eastern time zone in the US, you’ll need to be up at 11:00 pm this coming Wednesday the 24th of July. This is what I’m referring to: The LAWASIA Law Management Section has kindly set up a...
by Bruce | May 21, 2013 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
We humans like to put things in categories. And while we can get it plain wrong, or mix up two categories benignly or malignly, there’s no question our propensity for categorization—from friend or foe and food to poison, to Linnaeus, to the periodic table, to...
