by Bruce | January 20, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Total world cross-border trade as a percentage of global GDP 1990: 18% 2015 (estimated): 30% Computational capability of an Intel processor, as measured in instructions per second 1971: 60,000 2005: 10,800,000,000 Multiple by which e-mail traffic has grown from 1997...
by Bruce | January 13, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Your firm is dedicated to client service as one of its pre-eminent goals, if not the absolutely highest priority, right? Not so fast. Do you have a lawyer serving full-time as "Client Services Advisor," serving as an ombudsman on behalf of the...
by Bruce | January 6, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Your firm is dedicated to client service as one of its pre-eminent goals, if not the absolutely highest priority, right? Not so fast. Do you have a lawyer serving full-time as "Client Services Advisor," serving as an ombudsman on behalf of the...
by Bruce | August 22, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
It sounds counterintuitive, but is it possible that "knowledge workers" (that would be us) need more supervision than they’re getting, not less? So proposes Thomas Davenport, professor of IT and management at Babson College (in Wellesley, Mass.)...
by Bruce | August 10, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Is "leadership" a verb or a noun? I’m not trying to be cute—the real question is whether leaders are simply born, or can be made. To step back, leadership is one of those ineffable qualities the intrinsic desirability of which no one...
by Bruce | August 2, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
Does this sound like you?: "While technical countermeasures do a passable job of blocking spam and phishing attacks from beyond the firewall, the sheer volume of E-mail from legitimate senders has companies looking for ways to communicate through the clutter....