Our Still Noble (?) Profession

by | December 8, 2016 | Articles, Leadership

Having been born in Manhattan, raised in a very close-in suburb which orbited in the firm grasp of The City and existed to serve it (it was the era when parents did that), and having lived and worked on this Island ever since college and law school, I plead guilty to...

Tepid Can Kill You

by | November 30, 2016 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy

You deem the following quote: Surprising, because your partners are totally game for whatever changes the rapidly evolving world is throwing at your firm; Utterly familiar—depressingly so; The ace you have up your sleeve as Managing Partner when it’s simpler to...

Selecting Your Firm’s Next CEO

by | November 19, 2016 | Articles, Leadership

The longer I’m a student of our industry, the more firms we observe outperforming and underperforming, and the more clients we engage with (several recently) on the issue of leadership succession planning, the more firmly I believe that leadership matters....

The Fatal Shore

by | November 3, 2016 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy

Nearly 20 years ago Robert Hughes published The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding, still perhaps the definitive historical treatise on Australia’s founding from the continent’s discovery by the West to Britain’s decision to...
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