by Bruce | March 15, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Just when the drum-beat of KenLayBernieEbbersDennisKozlowskiMarthaStewart began to seem as unstoppable as, well, a tsunami, the always-refreshing Michael Schrage tees off at "the pea-brained ‘ethics-ification’ of business decision-making:" ...
by Bruce | March 12, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Technology strategy
I’m delighted to report that I’m slated to be blogger-in-residence at American Lawyer Media’s upcoming CIO/CTO conference the first week of April here in little old New York. Look for a report immediately thereafter. And thanks to my pals at...
by Bruce | March 9, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
In my last post I noted at least anecdotal evidence about the cost of losing existing talent, and today The National Law Journal reports that firms are taking steps to make it harder for headhunters to poach associates, primarily by removing information about...
by Bruce | March 1, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Hildebrandt and The Law Firm Group of the Citigroup Private Bank, with help from Baker-Robbins, are out with their 2004 year-in-review together with some prognostications for 2005. The New York Times, in its wisdom, headlined the story, "Partnerships More...
by Bruce | February 25, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Now that we all have religion about organizing firms by practice groups (well, most of us, anyway), the next logical question is, to paraphrase Ed Koch, "How are we doin’?" In other words, which practice groups are the strong economic engines...
by Bruce | February 16, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
How common is this scenario?: The CIO needs to improve the quality and credibility of the firm’s IT implementations, but since he lacks the money and resources he believes would be needed, he’s looking for a less expensive way to boost IT’s...
