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...
by Bruce | February 28, 2013 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
OK, so the film rights to the book have not yet been auctioned, but in the meantime here’s my interview with the intrepid Lee Pacchia of Bloomberg Law. From Lee’s introduction: The era of ever-expanding revenues and profits for the nation’s largest...
by Bruce | February 16, 2013 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Regular readers may know, or have intuited, that I was born in Manhattan and have spent essentially my entire adult life on the island (save for a childhood detour to a close-in suburb, and four-year and three-year sojourns to college and law school) and may have...
by Bruce | February 11, 2013 | About the Site, Articles, Book Reviews, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Update: Growth Is Dead: Now What? Book launch party Pete Kalis to join yours truly You don’t want to miss this Tuesday February 26/New York You’re invited! Dear Readers, To make the launch party for our new book, Growth Is Dead: Now What? even better, the...
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...