by Bruce | March 15, 2007 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Earlier, I wrote about the 12th annual "Law Firm Leaders Forum" held in San Francisco last week, which I was able to attend as a guest of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, whose Chairman & CEO, Ralph Baxter, has been a sponsor of the event from the...
by Bruce | June 2, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
A regular reader (partner at an AmLaw 25 firm and, coincidentally, a fellow Princetonian) writes: "You write about lockstep and eat-what-you-kill, but you don’t say a word about “completely black box” compensation. There are some firms in which...
by Bruce | January 23, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Have no fear that "Adam Smith, Esq." is going to morph into a boot-licking, reverential conduit for re-distributing the year-end natterings of those ink-stained scribes from the MSM and the high-profile consultancies hoping to goose their annual bonus by...
by Bruce | December 28, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Forgive me for an extensive quote, but it sets the stage for all that’s to follow here. From the redoubtable McKinsey: "In today’s developed economies, the significant nuances in employment concern interactions: the searching, monitoring, and...
by Bruce | November 29, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Can you stand another dose of Peter Drucker? I just about always can, and in The Wall Street Journal’s feature, the legacy of Drucker (in his own words), they feature this gem dating from its pages in 1993: "The Five Deadly Sins of...