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 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...
by Bruce | April 27, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Could it be that "great teams are less productive?" That’s the headline that got my attention over at Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge. As it turns out, there is understandable tension between "learning" and...
by Bruce | April 8, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
We’ve all encountered the jerks and a**holes in our firms, preferably as a co-equal partner who at least has a prayer of fighting back, but more often the real damage is done to associates or staff whose motivation is sapped, whose degree of loyalty to the firm...
by Bruce | April 2, 2007 | Articles, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
Heard of "Web 2.0?" Good; I thought so. Care to define it? Right; I also thought so. It can be a slippery concept, unusually prone to the "eye of the beholder" syndrome, but the uber -article about Web 2.0 was written by Tim...