by Bruce | October 17, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
If your firm is "two-tier" (equity and non-equity partners), would you ever consider going back to single-tier? Ridiculous, outlandish question—preposterous, beyond the pale, unthinkable? I’m here to remind you that CMS Cameron McKenna, #13...
by Bruce | October 12, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
As a leader in your firm, how do you know when it’s time to decide? And, of course, how do you know what to decide? How do you reach the "The Go Point," as Michael Useem , director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at...
by Bruce | October 8, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
New York, London, Hong Kong. Silicon Valley/San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, Boston, Washington, DC. These are special places in the world, all would reasonably acknowledge, but I’m fascinated by the question, "Why?" Why these places, why...
by Bruce | October 2, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Strategy
If you ever wondered why "Adam Smith, Esq." concentrates on law firms to the essential exclusion of inhouse legal departments—and if you happened to know that I spent nearly 10 years inhouse at Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter as a securities lawyer,...
by Bruce | October 2, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
"Management by Objective." "Management by Walking Around." "Re-engineering." "Six Sigma." "Good to Great." Even "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People," "Who Moved My...
by Bruce | September 29, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
I’ve written before about "social networks," and how they can be far more important than any relationships specified on your firm’s organizational charts, but "social network analysis" (SNA) is still an emerging field, with its...