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 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 18, 2006 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Seventeen years before The Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith published his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), nowadays a relatively neglected work which, to my mind, is nearly as astute, deserves far greater current recognition, and which not-incidentally puts pad...
by Bruce | January 16, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington—where my good friend Prof. William Henderson teaches—will be hosting a symposium on "The Globalization of the Legal Profession" Friday, April 6, 2006. I’m pleased to report that I will...
by Bruce | January 15, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Strategy, Technology strategy
Last week I met the head of Bloomberg’s relatively new "Law" initiative, aimed at putting $1,500/month Bloomberg terminals on the desks of senior partners and general counsel. Before I describe what "Bloomberg Law" is about, I invite...
by Bruce | January 14, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Regular readers will know that I’m a firm subscriber to the Law of Unintended Consequences, which is also why I try to exercise consistency in analyzing "dynamic" and not just "static" effects of a proposal. Clarification: The...