by Bruce | September 24, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The annual "Adam Smith, Esq." Reader Survey is actively in progress, and I sincerely urge those of you who haven’t taken the two to three minutes it takes to complete it to do so right now. The point of the survey? Two-fold: I want to...
by Bruce | September 23, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
Over at LegalWeek, the big buzz this past week was all about the results of the annual survey they conduct of US firms operating in London which showed that 47% of respondents would consider a UK merger, up from 39% a year ago and just 29% in 2005. The story was also...
by Bruce | September 21, 2007 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Regular readers will know that I recently became Regional Director of the Managing Partners’ Forum for their first US foray, here in New York. This is how they describe their mission here: "The MPF is the world’s leading association of...
by Bruce | September 19, 2007 | Articles, Leadership, Strategy
Our text for today, dear reader, is simple. It’s from The Wall Street Journal’s article about a "Power Couple" developing some of the key downtown Beijing real estate in preparation for the 2008 Olympics. He (Pan Shiyi) is a...
by Bruce | September 15, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Now that marketing has become an ingrained function at firms and no longer either an exotic foreign import or an isolated archipelago, it might be time to re-examine how the world’s most sophisticated marketing organizations—consumer packaged goods...
by Bruce | September 12, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
"CEOs and board members, who have been pushing Chief Marketing Officers hard for growth and for more effective marketing efforts, are frustrated by the difficulty of finding chief marketers with the full range of necessary skills. Turnover rates for CMOs are...