by Bruce | October 1, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Rare is the law firm that goes through the hard, nay soul-searching, work of developing a strategic plan. The good news is that for the huge majority of firms none is needed: They’re small, local shops; or they pursue the specialties and interests of...
by Bruce | September 26, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
A contested election for managing partner?! If your reaction is quelle horreur, perhaps you should think of taking a page from corporate-land and imagining not only that the race for the top spot might be competitive, but imagining that an outsider with a track...
by Bruce | September 22, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
"Finance is the language of business decisions." True, or merely the imperialistic mindset of the MBA at work? Agree or disagree, without some common language, decisions will not be made, and finance is at least a language tied to relatively...
by Bruce | September 19, 2004 | Articles, Leadership
This pithy article is about leadership in the context of General Counsels, but leadership is leadership and the same observations would apply to practice group managers, Executive Directors, and for that matter CFO’s and CIO’s. Why then do I fear its...
by Bruce | September 17, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership
Starting this past summer, Associate Professor of Law William Henderson, of the Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington and I have been working behind the scenes on the "Law Firm Research Project." Prof. Henderson teaches a course called...
by Bruce | September 16, 2004 | Articles, Leadership
The UK-based "Managing Partners Forum" (MPF), chaired by the managing partner of DLA, describes itself as the association for leaders and management teams in professional service firms. In other words, the group for Executive Directors,...