by Bruce | September 29, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
I’ve written before about "social networks," and how they can be far more important than any relationships specified on your firm’s organizational charts, but "social network analysis" (SNA) is still an emerging field, with its...
by Bruce | July 3, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
The Financial Times has a special report on "Innovative Lawyers 2006," which I commend to you essentially in its entirety. It’s thoroughly researched, involving soliciting submissions about "innovation" from the largest 200 firms in the...
by Bruce | May 10, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
In the world of technology, we’ve had the IBM mainframe era, the Microsoft PC era, and now we have…the Google web era? I’m not being facetious; well, CIO magazine is not being facetious, anyway, when it features this as its cover story. Add in...
by Bruce | May 8, 2006 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Knowledge Management
"The dismal science?" You won’t be surprised to hear that that’s about the last way I’d describe the art and discipline of economics, and a new book, Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations, reviewed by Paul Krugman in yesterday’s...
by Bruce | April 18, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
I’ve written before about the economic implications of living in a "tacit" industry (as opposed to a "transactional" or a "transformational" one—McKinsey’s coinage), but there’s more to say. A brief review of the...
by Bruce | April 10, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
"Lawyers and innovation are not words that people automatically put together," is how the FT starts its announcement of the launch of a ranking of the most innovative law firms, and individual lawyers, co-sponsored by the accountancy BDO Stoy Hayward and...