by Bruce | February 8, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Here’s a thought experiment: If you believe the cover story in the current issue of Business Week, the torrent of numbers coming out of the federal government measuring, sizing, and describing nearly every facet of the US economy are in many ways...
by Bruce | January 23, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Have no fear that "Adam Smith, Esq." is going to morph into a boot-licking, reverential conduit for re-distributing the year-end natterings of those ink-stained scribes from the MSM and the high-profile consultancies hoping to goose their annual bonus by...
by Bruce | January 20, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Total world cross-border trade as a percentage of global GDP 1990: 18% 2015 (estimated): 30% Computational capability of an Intel processor, as measured in instructions per second 1971: 60,000 2005: 10,800,000,000 Multiple by which e-mail traffic has grown from 1997...
by Bruce | January 15, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Strategy, Technology strategy
Last week I met the head of Bloomberg’s relatively new "Law" initiative, aimed at putting $1,500/month Bloomberg terminals on the desks of senior partners and general counsel. Before I describe what "Bloomberg Law" is about, I invite...
by Bruce | January 8, 2006 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Knowledge Management, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
"Adam Smith, Esq." is honored and delighted to host Blawg Review #39; I consider myself in excellent company given the distinguished and talented people who have hosted Blawg Review in the past. This week we celebrate: Epiphany: n. ...
by Bruce | November 22, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy
For inhouse legal departments and general counsel, the primary and eternal question is whether to rent or buy: That is, whether to hire outside counsel for matter X (renting) or whether to staff up internally (buying). Having supervised the annual budgeting...
