by Bruce | January 22, 2013 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Marketing
Permit me to paraphrase, and hopefully not mutilate, the lead from a recent article on strategy + business, the Booz & Co. (nee Booz Allen & Hamilton) online magazine: It’s a tough world …. New technologies … have permanently changed the [law firm...
by Bruce | January 16, 2013 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
By the time I go home I’ll have been over here for a week; some impressions are forming and it’s not too soon to start airing some thoughts. For starters, pretty much everyone agrees, implicitly or explicltly, that we’re in a flat...
by Bruce | December 28, 2012 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
At year end it seems fitting to take a look at economic conditions overall, and what better source than the McKinsey Global Survey Economic Conditions Snapshot/December 2012? It’s a compilation of 1,575 responses from executives “representing the full...
by Bruce | December 22, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Strategy
We’ve never done a year-end review, and don’t count this (The “First Annual” if you wish) a precedent, but I thought it worthwhile to build one of the final columns of 2012 around what law firm leaders are saying. So without further ado, as the...
by Bruce | December 16, 2012 | About the Site, Articles, Book Reviews, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
We are delighted to announce that we have just published the complete 12-part series Growth is Dead as an e-book. Demand from you, Dear Readers, to be able to have the entire series available in one spot, was unprecedented and trying to satisfy those requests was...
by Bruce | December 15, 2012 | Articles, Finance, Practice Group Management
Aric Press, always worth reading, has an especially subtle column out this month, Why Pricing Billable Work May Be Too Important to Leave to the Lawyers. Here’s his key insight, which I envy for its astuteness: Lawyers have trouble talking about...