by Bruce | January 30, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
If that call came in to your firm tomorrow morning, where would it go? If the answer is, "anyone’s guess," and if you consider your firm "a player," you have some work to do. Consider that at last week’s Davos meeting of the "World...
by Bruce | January 27, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
David Maister confesses: "I have spent twenty years trying to say all professions look similar and can learn from each other, but I’m finally prepared to concede that lawyers are different – and it has nothing to do with economics." In a piece...
by Bruce | January 27, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Questions for your managing partner, executive committee, and executive director: Is your firm as profitable as it could be? How does it measure up vis-a-vis its peer group? And what defines that "peer group," precisely? Do you...
by Bruce | January 23, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Have no fear that "Adam Smith, Esq." is going to morph into a boot-licking, reverential conduit for re-distributing the year-end natterings of those ink-stained scribes from the MSM and the high-profile consultancies hoping to goose their annual bonus by...
by Bruce | January 23, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Two new blogs of note: David Maister’s "Passion, People and Principles": I sincerely hope you recognize David’s name; if you don’t, I implore you to take an immediate look. His inaugural post is about his "blogging...
by Bruce | January 22, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
As I’ve written before, "Business Intelligence" is here to stay. (And if that’s an unfamiliar or unclear term to you, please refer to the earlier post on this, which serves to introduce the field; and no apologies necessary, as the...