by Bruce | March 21, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Do you ever wonder about child prodigies who flame out, or your (former) colleagues who seemed incredibly gifted early in their careers, destined for stardom, but who inexplicably went down the all-but-irreversible road of disappointment after...
by Bruce | March 9, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Whether or not your firm has a private equity practice, you’re surely familiar with its just this side of astonishing rise over the past half decade or so. And if you’re like me you’ve asked yourself, "Who are those guys?" What...
by Bruce | February 28, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
If your firm is in a comfort zone where doing things 5% or 10% or even 15% better next year will suffice, stop reading because I’m going to be talking about transformation. Transformations may be confused with "managing change," but I’d...
by Bruce | February 23, 2007 | Articles, Book Reviews, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The relentless onslaught of business and management books often feels (to me, at least) like standing at the bottom of the sluiceways of the Grand Coulee Dam. Fortunately, all but a tiny slice of the dead-tree armada is utterly inconsequential. Of the...
by Bruce | February 21, 2007 | Articles, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
This morning I delivered the keynote at the Ark Group’s two-day conference starting here in New York, "Best Practices & Management Strategies for Legal Library & Information Service Centers." My keynote was titled "The Law Library of the...
by Bruce | February 16, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
"I’ve become accustomed in the last six years to facing the presumption that a profession cannot be a business in its true sense. It is quite a common assertion, made equally by a number from within our own profession. It is underpinned by the belief that...