by Bruce | July 7, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Have you been struck by how frequently the first question lawyers will ask, when exposed to a new suggestion about how they might run things at the firm (from the smallest to the largest issues) is: "Well, what other firms are doing that?" On one...
by Bruce | July 3, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
The Financial Times has a special report on "Innovative Lawyers 2006," which I commend to you essentially in its entirety. It’s thoroughly researched, involving soliciting submissions about "innovation" from the largest 200 firms in the...
by Bruce | June 30, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
OK, you’re going to have to trust me on this one: It’s a story about leadership taking off from an Everest expedition. What rescues it from almost certain death-by-cliche is both the high-quality source (Knowledge @ Wharton—now available as...
by Bruce | June 27, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Leadership is one of those inexhaustible topics about which one can never learn too much. The only problem with "learning" about it (at least by reading) is that 98% of what’s written about it is either: pluperfectly self-evident; the recitation...
by Bruce | June 21, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Eric Beinhocker, a fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute (a "think tank," in the oddly quaint but apt phrase), is out with what may be one of the most provocative books on economics in several years—though admittedly I haven’t even seen a copy...
by Bruce | June 20, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
You know that your approach to decision-making—your decision-making "style," if you will—needs to change as you progress from associate to junior partner to (perhaps) practice group leader to member of the executive committee. But precisely...
