by Bruce | July 25, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership
We’ve written that leaving the office was trivial, at least in retrospect–“fire alarm’s going off, everyone leave the building”–but that returning is going to pose one of the most complex...
by Bruce | April 30, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership
In the second part of this two-part series, Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute published the following article we wrote at their request. We republish it here by their kind courtesy. In the first installment of this two-part series, we talked about the...
by Bruce | January 27, 2020 | About the Site, Articles
The following column was written by Antonio Leal Holguin, Director of Latin America for Adam Smith, Esq. Back in the early 2010s I was practicing at a family-owned law firm in Bogota, Colombia. As I became increasingly interested in law firm management, I began...
by Bruce | December 13, 2019 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Not to name names, but does it strike you as it does me that we’re in the midst of a global surfeit of senior leaders behaving badly? Almost every domain of human endeavor seems tarnished, or worse, by malfeasance, broken trust, power abused, or even...
by Bruce | June 9, 2019 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
At the end of installment #1, we promised you we’d discuss what happens if you apply Porter’s famous “five forces” to the Maroons and the Grays. Shall we? Insight from Porter’s “Five Forces” In 1979, Harvard Business School Professor Michael...
