by Bruce | March 21, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Tomorrow I’m giving a presentation to the New Jersey Area regional meeting of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) on "Leadership Principles for Technology Managers." Topics I’ll address include: What Leadership is Not (hint:...
by Bruce | March 19, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
I doubt I need point out to any of my readers the front-page story in today’s Sunday New York Times’ Business Section (above the fold, even!) headlined, "Up the Down Staircase: Why Do So Few Women Reach the Top of Big Law Firms," but in...
by Bruce | March 16, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Reminder & Update: The SUNY/Stony Brook MBA Program exclusively for law firm managers is starting the last week of April. I’m a faculty member, teaching the core (a/k/a required) course, "Strategic Technology & Innovation," and we...
by Bruce | March 15, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Practice Group Management
Nadia Cristina, Managing Editor of London-based pm magazine, who was gracious enough to agree to an interview when I was over there last fall, just forwarded one of the fruits of that meeting to me, an article I co-authored with Bruce Marcus titled...
by Bruce | March 14, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
When it comes to law firm financial performance, there’s a fatalistic school of thought which more or less adopts the following position: "Profitability all depends on matters outside the firm’s immediate control, starting with the basics such...
by Bruce | March 11, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
In 2004 James Surowiecki, a business columnist with The New Yorker, published the well-received The Wisdom of Crowds, which explored (and celebrated) the phenomenon of "collective intelligence," whereby the consensus forecast of a number of lay people was...