by Bruce | May 13, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
"The most penetrating analyst of capitalism who ever lived?" No, it’s not Adam Smith himself, who was in a poor position to be an "analyst" of what he essentially invented. Keynes? Marx? Darwin? (I’m actually not...
by Bruce | May 10, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The American Lawyer asks "Is Shedding Partners the Right Way to Improve Profitability?," which is the wrong question—albeit a nice headline for a relatively substantive article. First, what phenomenon are they addressing? The phenomenon is...
by Bruce | May 9, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
"Uncertainty sometimes is essential for success." A scientist talking? An NFL coach? A four-star general? Actually, Jerome Groopman, a physician at Harvard Medical School who also writes for The New Yorker. The words are from his new book, How Doctors Think,...
by Bruce | May 8, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
The American Lawyer’s famous AmLaw 100 has been out for about a week now, and it’s time to release some preliminary number-crunching. I’ll also have some more qualitatively analytic pieces in the next week or so, but here are the hot data dots for...
by Bruce | May 3, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Frankly, I’ve written too infrequently about our industry’s deplorable statistics on the ratio of women partners to male partners. I have excuses, but they’re not reasons. Herewith a first attempt to remedy that. This is prompted by...
by Bruce | April 30, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
From HBS’s Working Knowledge, in an article entitled "Do I Dare Say Something?" "Perhaps most surprising to us has been the degree to which fear appears to be a feature of modern work life. Whenever we talk with others about this work, such as on...