The Original Firm Culture

by | February 16, 2017 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership

What do you think this describes? “a set of basic tacit assumptions about how the world is and ought to be that is shared by a set of people and determines their perceptions, thoughts, feelings and, to some degree, their overt behavior.” If you guessed...

A “Premortem:” To Head Off the Post-

by | January 24, 2017 | Articles, Leadership, Strategy

The Premortem “The premortem is a great idea. I mentioned it at Davos and the chairman of a large corporation said it was worth coming to Davos for. The beauty of the premortem is that it is very easy to do. My guess is that, in general, doing a premortem on a plan...

Now What? (Hint: Growth Is Dead)

by | January 2, 2017 | Articles, Leadership, Strategy

It’s become a commonplace to observe that Law Land has entered a period of negligible overall real growth in demand. (Five years ago I published Growth Is Dead: Now What?, which at the time prompted a fair amount of skepticism, a perspective on the book which...
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