by Bruce | January 19, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
A reader has asked my opinion on "diversity," and while there’s not much new or scintillating to say about its worthy objectives or general feel-good quotient, my approach will be to examine it through the lens of firm performance: Do more...
by Bruce | January 8, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
One of the topics I’d like to devote more time to here on "Adam Smith, Esq." is marketing and business development. It matters. It’s harder than it looks. Some people seem preternaturally gifted at it and others seem to have no...
by Bruce | January 4, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
I got the news on my BlackBerry early this afternoon, but it’s all over the place now (WSJ, American Lawyer, Bloomberg [where yours truly is quoted]): The Dewey-Orrick merger is not to be. I’m sorry. I felt from the beginning it held great...
by Bruce | January 3, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Aric Press, always worth reading, writes in this month’s American Lawyer about potential challenges to the Rosy Scenario common wisdom of leaders of the AmLaw 200. He reports: "So is there anything to worry about for the future of the...
by Bruce | December 26, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
CIO Insight, in partnership with Baseline Magazine, is featuring a year-end review of nearly 230 case studies done over the past five years to distill out the "Top 10 Lessons for IT Project Success." Reading that piece in conjunction with "Top 10...
by Bruce | December 21, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
At the intersection of: technology globalization, and demographics we have, according to Robert Reich (Secretary of Labor under President Clinton and now Prof. of Public Policy at Berkeley), the challenge of "the economics of people" for the next few...