by Bruce | January 17, 2009 | About the Site, Articles, Globalization
I’ll be leaving for London tonight and spending all week there—back next Saturday the 24th. Among the firms I’ll be visiting will be a number of the usual suspects including most of the Magic Circle. Although I was just over there early last...
by Bruce | January 17, 2009 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
I recently wrote about the dearth of critical thinking abroad in the land. Now I’d like to bookend that piece with a classic from The Harvard Business Review, "Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?" The opening lines are priceless; I would ask you...
by Bruce | January 12, 2009 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Every day, these days, and more than once, I ask myself, what all this means for our profession and our industry. By "all this" I refer, of course, to the economic environment. Here are some of the hypotheses I’m putting in front of people I talk with:...
by Bruce | January 9, 2009 | Articles, Book Reviews
Ten years after publishing The Future of Law, Richard Susskind is back with what in many ways is an extended sequel, The End of Lawyers? If you don’t know Richard (disclosure: I do, and consider him a friend), it’s high time. From the dust jacket:...
by Bruce | January 1, 2009 | About the Site, Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
This is actually a new-for-2009 Waterford crystal ball, approximately 10 feet in diameter, weighing over 12,000 pounds, covered with 2,668 crystal triangles, and illuminated by more than 32,000 LEDs. Happy big bad bright New Year. Actually, Dear Reader, I...
by Bruce | December 30, 2008 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Perspective. It’s time for some. A friend of mine who’s the lead financial reporter for one of the original three networks prompts these thoughts. Not that he/she subscribes to the view that it’s time for some "perspective"–au...