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 16, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Have you asked your CIO lately whether he thinks IT at your firm is "aligned" with your business? Are you wondering what on earth I’m talking about? If you haven’t immersed yourself in IT management literature (I have), I need to explain that...
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 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...