by Bruce | December 29, 2011 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Every once in awhile–and the calendar’s odometric rollover from one year to the next is as good an occasion as any–it’s wise to stand back and try to gain a little perspective. So it is with Brian Arthur’s October 2011 piece in The...
by Bruce | December 16, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The BBC evidently does an annual review of the economic year as part of “BBC Newsnight,” and they’ve posted the top economists graphs of 2011, “sharing insights into the year’s extraordinary financial developments, particularly in the...
by Bruce | December 13, 2011 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Imagine an industry finding itself characterized as follows: “The good old days of the industry are gone forever.” “Even an improved global economic climate is unlikely to halt efforts to contain spending.” “These factors suggest that the...
by Bruce | December 6, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
And I respond here (transcript) and here (podcast).Among the highlights:[Me:[ One of the things that started to happen before the Great Recession was, for example, I saw this most clearly in the rise of starting salaries to a $160,000 in New York and major...
by Bruce | December 5, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Innovative Managing Partners, Practice Group Management, Strategy
I doubt many of you, gentle readers, follow David Carr, who writes the Media Equation column for the Monday Business section of The New York Times, but I commend him to you as an enlightened, thoughtful, and experienced observer at the intersection of media,...
by Bruce | November 19, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
We have a quick update on our earlier survey about the future of the Eurozone: In sum: 36% of you think we’ll muddle through, but followed very closely by 32% of you who think the entire benighted structured, flying in the face of 1,000 years of history,...