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 | January 4, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Strategy
In case you haven’t seen the home-page of Law.com today, they are launching their "Career Center": And this is the article that I’m up there, as it were, alluding to.
by Bruce | January 3, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Improve on your weaknesses or build on your strengths: Which one would you focus on to achieve greater success? If, like 59% of people surveyed by Marcus Buckingham, co-author of First, Break All the Rules, you chose "work on your weaknesses,"...
by Bruce | December 30, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
A few months ago, I participated in a panel on "Going Global: What it Takes," with my friends Rees Morrison and Robert Ambrogi. The audio recording of the panel is now up. You’re obviously invited to have a...
by Bruce | December 30, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
Is the merger wave going as strong in the UK as it is here? And if so, should we blame it on the Yanks? In a new survey of 85 of the 125 largest firms in the UK, four out of five of the managing partners or executive directors responding reported that they had...
by Bruce | December 30, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
At the intersection of strategic decision-making and human shortcoming is behavioral economics, which teaches that a host of biases, such as overoptimism about the likelihood of success, the "principal-agent problem," and undue loss aversion, combine to form...