by Bruce | December 15, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
In a piece in this month’s American Lawyer titled "Turning Point," Dan DiPietro, the head of the Citigroup Private Bank’s Law Firm group, provides quantitative financial support for a theory I’ve long held, that our industry is not just...
by Bruce | December 9, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
In general, I try to avoid staking out hard and fast positions. Partly, this is simply because I have a strong preference for spending my time analyzing and discussing issues where there really are two (or more) sides; they’re just plain more intrinsically...
by Bruce | November 22, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Mergers, globalization, consolidation: I’ve heard all about it. Time to tell me something new. Is that your feeling? Then let’s talk about post-merger leadership, and what you could actually do to make a difference if the seemingly-inevitable comes to...
by Bruce | November 6, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Every once in awhile, you see an individual at a firm make a tremendous difference, and I’ve tried to make it a custom to celebrate the situations when I think I’ve identified such exemplars. Today I offer John Alber of Bryan Cave’s St. Louis office,...
by Bruce | November 3, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Now that I’ve just written a piece celebrating "quiet" leaders, let’s talk about Andy Grove. To be sure, he’s about as far from "quiet" as you can get, at least on the surface. But according to a new biography, Andy Grove:...
by Bruce | November 1, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Today, let’s contrast the consummate "noisy leader" of recent months—Carly Fiorina, late of Hewlett Packard—with the archetypal "quiet leader" as portrayed by Prof. Joseph Badaracco of Harvard Business School. The...