by Bruce | September 16, 2004 | Articles, Leadership
A last word (at least for now) on MPF’s: What exactly do they do? Most are in IT and knowledge management, with an increasing number in marketing. "Marketing" remaining a fighting word to some, however, the commitment to marketing varies...
by Bruce | September 12, 2004 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures
Getting partner compensation "right" is an issue I have, and will continue to, recur to. Why? Essentially because I believe that the two extreme models (the strict lockstep and the strict "eat what you kill") each works in only the...
by Bruce | September 8, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership
No matter how diligent and scrupulous your "disaster recovery" plans may be from the perspective of IT business-continuity and "hot" off-site locations, have you ever considered another type of disaster and the recovery that is required? That...
by Bruce | September 2, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
One of the themes I recur to here is the indispensable role of leadership, and the ineffability of what makes a great leader. Occasionally a leader will simply "emerge" as the breathtakingly obvious choice, a sort of leader by acclamation (although...
by Bruce | August 30, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership
Novelists questioned about how they write, and more specifically about how they come up with their plots, sometimes respond to the effect that, "The characters took on a life of their own; they told me what they were going to do next." I occasionally have...
by Bruce | August 23, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures
Although this Hildebrandt article dates back to 2000, its premise that law firms of the future will migrate to the model of having full-fledged CEO’s as business leaders strikes me as visionary then and almost palpably the direction in which the world is headed...