by Bruce | July 31, 2020 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Strategy
Our good friends at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute asked us to offer some reflections on the recently released AmLaw 200 for 2020. Our first, “How Not to Think About the AmLaw 200,” was published in late June and here, republished by their...
by Bruce | July 26, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
The world is well into the greatest “natural experiment” in WFH ever seen. No one glided into this; it came as abruptly as an on-off switch. I’m sure the experience at Adam Smith, Esq. was fairly typical: One week (spanning the end of February and the start of...
by Bruce | June 5, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Regular readers are familiar with our periodic custom of penning “Letters from…”when we’ve spent a meaningful amount of time in “…” and want to offer some observations, insights, and commentary on that particular city and market. We’re not traveling. That can mean...
by Bruce | May 26, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
A premise of our “Build Back Better” focus du jour (actually, du l’annee) is that we’ve already drastically changed many things about how we conventionally worked, so we can change more. McKinsey has also been thinking (and writing) about this...
by Bruce | May 11, 2020 | About the Site, Articles, Business Models, Client Relationships, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
This column is by Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton What do we know now that we did not know in January? Obviously, we know we’re in the grip of a global pandemic, which has precipitated a worldwide macroeconomic seizure comparable to the Great Depression, and that...
by Bruce | April 21, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…” – Rudyard Kipling Ever wondered why clergy seem almost preternaturally calm? I certainly have. Were they born that way and, therefore,...
