by Bruce | January 19, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
A reader has asked my opinion on "diversity," and while there’s not much new or scintillating to say about its worthy objectives or general feel-good quotient, my approach will be to examine it through the lens of firm performance: Do more...
by Bruce | January 12, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Ram Charan is a name you ought to know if you don’t already. A Harvard Business School MBA and Ph.D. and former HBS faculty member, his books have sold more than 2-million copies, including one I’ve read, Execution, co-authored with Larry Bossidy....
by Bruce | January 11, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management
Daniel Goleman, author of the 1995 best-seller "Emotional Intelligence" (over 5 million copies in print, in 30 languages) is now out with a sequel of sorts, "Social Intelligence," which deals with how we can be smarter in relationships with each...
by Bruce | December 26, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
CIO Insight, in partnership with Baseline Magazine, is featuring a year-end review of nearly 230 case studies done over the past five years to distill out the "Top 10 Lessons for IT Project Success." Reading that piece in conjunction with "Top 10...
by Bruce | December 23, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Regular readers will know that one of my themes is leadership, and my belief that it’s, increasingly, a determinant of which firms are "pulling away" and which are maintaining their position or even seeing it slowly erode. I might add, in the...
by Bruce | December 14, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Among the numerous obstacles to an effective and comprehensive Knowledge Management program are (a) lawyers’ reluctance—actually, make that absolute refusal—to spend 10 seconds in the active "care and feeding" of the KM system; and (b) the...