by Bruce | August 21, 2013 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
In our first installment we talked among other things of driving leadership down into the organization and encouraging people to experiment. I closed by noting that nothing would happen unless (a) people throughout the firm were genuinely engaged with the project; and...
by Bruce | August 16, 2013 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Years ago one of my very favorite Managing Partners said to me, “We’ll know BigLaw is mature as an industry when a firm in need of a new Managing Partner does what every Fortune 500 company has done at one time or another—runs up I-95 to Fairfield,...
by Bruce | August 14, 2013 | About the Site, Articles, Globalization, Leadership
In partnership with our good friends at Above the Law, I’ll be in Toronto the evening of Tuesday, September 10th discussing “Growth Is Dead: Now What?”. The event will run from 6:30 to 9:00 pm and will include a cocktail reception before and...
by Bruce | August 6, 2013 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
One lens through which to view a large part of the corpus of business and management literature is that of metrics. Simply consider how much of what’s written consists of discussions about what to measure, what to optimize, and how to enhance all those numbers....
by Bruce | July 23, 2013 | About the Site, Articles, Book Reviews, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Actually, this is for all our readers, but for those of you in the Eastern time zone in the US, you’ll need to be up at 11:00 pm this coming Wednesday the 24th of July. This is what I’m referring to: The LAWASIA Law Management Section has kindly set up a...
by Bruce | July 19, 2013 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Here’s Scenario 1: You’re in an executive committee or practice group or departmental meeting at your firm, and the question arises for discussion why one or a handful of your partners are engaging in activities which, from the firm’s overall...