by Bruce | April 24, 2013 | Articles, Book Reviews
Growth Is Dead: Now What? has now been out for two months and reviews are beginning to come in. Here are a few: A high-profile law-firm consultant offers a grim prognosis, and advice, for the upper echelons of the legal profession. He addresses a range of problems,...
by Bruce | April 11, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
A few weeks ago I ran a column about “ReInvent Law,” an event in Silicon Valley in the first half of March, which presented some views about possible futures of BigLaw, most of which were, uh, challenging to those who think business as usual is a strategy....
by Bruce | April 5, 2013 | Articles, Book Reviews
OK, cut a guy some slack, but I found this one of the most profoundly thoughtful reactions to Growth Is Dead: Now What? that I’ve seen (from a very recent review on Amazon): In last month’s Harvard Business Review (March 2013), Larry Downes and Paul F....
by Bruce | March 15, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Profiles of Individuals
As most readers know, one of the irregular—but always popular—kinds of columns we publish are in the form of interviews with people who pass our rigorous 10-point test are intrinsically interesting. Recently I had the luck to get to know Herb Thomas, who immediately...
by Bruce | March 11, 2013 | About the Site, Articles, Book Reviews, Strategy
As I hope many of you saw, we held a launch party for Growth Is Dead: Now What? here in New York about ten days ago, and some photos are now back. Our generous friends at Above the Law hosted the event, which was held at the NoMad Hotel on Broadway at 28th Street....