by Bruce | February 1, 2024 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
When it comes to partner pay, the first thing everyone salaciously wants to know is “how high is up?” And second by a nose is probably “Who’s on top and by how much, especially compared to me?” Please, people, we can do better than this. (You have to admit it sounds...
by Bruce | April 13, 2023 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Jamie Dimon’s annual letter to shareholders, which comes out as part of the JP Morgan Chase annual report, was published about two weeks ago. At 42 pages, it takes more than a passing skim-over to digest, but. It is almost universally read among business leaders, and...
by Bruce | March 8, 2023 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Recruiting, Strategic Client Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Covid-19 may be behind us as a daily personal preoccupation, but one major repercussion of its shockingly extended and global impact is still with us: Do we or do we not go back to the office? May we review the bidding? Totally remote/zero days-week in the office is...
by Bruce | August 21, 2022 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
We distributed this column several weeks ago to our “friends and family” opt-in email list (which has a handsome level of subscribers and is free–what’s taking you so long? [sign up at the foot of our homepage]) but herewith on our public site....
by Bruce | June 23, 2022 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Two plus years after the simultaneous worldwide Office Exodus (“Everybody out of the building!”) at the onset of this pandemic, we are at last beginning to emerge from the by-guess-and-by-golly finger-in-the-air period of figuring out what WFH (thank you,...
by Bruce | June 1, 2022 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
This article was co-written with Janet Stanton, Partner. As you know, we have recently published our thoughts on the likelihood of a recession in the United States: Reasonably high, in a nutshell. We won’t rehearse our reasoning here in detail, but the root cause...