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...
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:...
