by Bruce | May 13, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
"The most penetrating analyst of capitalism who ever lived?" No, it’s not Adam Smith himself, who was in a poor position to be an "analyst" of what he essentially invented. Keynes? Marx? Darwin? (I’m actually not...
by Bruce | May 10, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The American Lawyer asks "Is Shedding Partners the Right Way to Improve Profitability?," which is the wrong question—albeit a nice headline for a relatively substantive article. First, what phenomenon are they addressing? The phenomenon is...
by Bruce | May 9, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
"Uncertainty sometimes is essential for success." A scientist talking? An NFL coach? A four-star general? Actually, Jerome Groopman, a physician at Harvard Medical School who also writes for The New Yorker. The words are from his new book, How Doctors Think,...
by Bruce | May 8, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
The American Lawyer’s famous AmLaw 100 has been out for about a week now, and it’s time to release some preliminary number-crunching. I’ll also have some more qualitatively analytic pieces in the next week or so, but here are the hot data dots for...
by Bruce | May 3, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Frankly, I’ve written too infrequently about our industry’s deplorable statistics on the ratio of women partners to male partners. I have excuses, but they’re not reasons. Herewith a first attempt to remedy that. This is prompted by...
by Bruce | April 27, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Could it be that "great teams are less productive?" That’s the headline that got my attention over at Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge. As it turns out, there is understandable tension between "learning" and...