One of the weekend newspapers did a hotlist of the most expensive celebrity divorces:
1. Michael Jordan – 17 year marriage, £110m settlement
2. Neil Diamond – 26 year marriage, £95m
3. Steven Spielberg – £64m. Pre-nuptial on a napkin thrown out
4. Harrison Ford – £54m and share of future earnings
5. Kevin Costner – £51m
6. Madonna – £49m to Guy including the Wiltshire estate
7. James Cameron – £30m cos she failed to wait til after Titanic was finished
8. Phil Collins – £30m to wife number three. Previously £20m to wife number two
9. Michael Douglas – £30m (half his fortune)
10. Paul McCartney – £24m (£100m less than she asked for)
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Published On: September 7, 2023- Understanding General Counsel – Four recent research reports
- UK growth ahead - Accountants Haines Watts and Grant Thornton research UK business growth prospects and optimism
- Legal sector research: Highlights from “The Age of the Client” by LexisNexis
- Legal market research – The Lawyer’s In-house Attitudes Report
- Three important legal sector research results
- Law Society legal market research 2016 – The future of legal services
- Legal market research – Perceptions and needs of consumers and small businesses
- Legal market research – The 2016 NatWest Financial Benchmarking Report
- Legal market research – LexisNexis Bellwether 2016 report highlights
- Client Experience Management CEM – Two research reports
- Legal market research - Lexis-Nexis Bellwether research report 2017 “Why independent law firms are thriving”
- Legal market research – Brand promises and service realities 2017/18 by Nisus Consulting
- Commerciality – Finance, pricing, innovation and research
- Research report: 24th Annual Smith & Williamson Law Firm Survey 2018 “Brexit, what Brexit?”
- Accountancy marketing case study - How KPMG influenced £35 million in new business by blending digital and offline media
- The growth of MarTech in professional services
- Law firm analysis – MHA Legal Benchmarking Annual Report 2020
- Law Society Research Report - Future Worlds 2050: images of the future worlds facing the legal profession 2020-2030
- Research on leadership and emotional intelligence (EQ)
- Nine Marketing and Business Development trends in 2021
- Meridian West’s Marketing Leaders Benchmark 2022
- Legal marketing case study – Thought leadership campaigns at Howard Kennedy (relationship breakdown and business agility)
- PM Conference Report 2022: Strategy implementation, Employer Value Propositions (EVP), Storytelling and Client Feedback
- Property marketing case study – Thought leadership campaigns: Arcadia, JLL and Remit
- Be more strategic – PESTLE, Positioning and Plans
- 10 Trends – Annual International Marketing Benchmark by PM Forum and Meridian West
- Two 2023 financial benchmarks for law firms: The Law Society/Hazelwoods and the Institute of Legal Finance & Management (ILFM)/Crowe
- Research update on the most in-demand soft skills
- Book review – Managing Brands
- Pitching, differentiation and competitor analysis
- Being more strategic - Case studies and insights (Ireland May 2023)
- Managing Partners’ Forum Strategy Summit
- Professional services marketing/BD case studies – Moore Kingston Smith, Mazars, Capsticks, Fladgate, Travers Smith, Mills & Reeve and brand awards
- Key Account Management (KAM) – Research companies, use KAM technology and maintain momentum
- Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing
- Case study: haysmacintyre accountants and social media
- App development case study – Mills & Reeve lawyers
- Digital PR case study – Brecher Solicitors: from food to law to property blogging
- Case Study – UK tax rates app from Haines Watts accountants
- Case study – Digital PR central part of the mix to build an accountancy niche in fashion
- Case study (Law firm marketing) - Mishcon de Reya
- Digital PR case study – BDO accountants “Service2020: Megatrends for the decade ahead” and local government social media campaign
- Legal Marketing Case study - How Thomson Snell & Passmore lawyers grew a new office from scratch
- Legal Marketing Case study - Withy King's research/media relations campaign
- Legal marketing case study: Focused newsletters at the heart of client relationship and events programmes at Aaron & Partners
- Case study: Developing a family law practice at Oxley & Coward solicitors in Yorkshire
- Legal marketing case study: Irwin Mitchell combines DR advertising, online promotion and brand building
- Legal Marketing Case Study: "Hot on family law" at Rayden Solicitors
- Property marketing case study: Adam Tinworth on the challenges of on-line communities and content management
- Property marketing case study – Video at Knight Frank, Berwin Leighton Paisner and Estates Gazette
- Property marketing case study – CBRE at MIPIM with bears and bulls video and social media
- Property Marketing Case Study – The power of brands in B2B and B2C (Cluttons, Workspace and CBRE)
- Legal marketing case studies – Farrer & Co Lexis® Interaction® and Berwin Leighton Paisner Siteimprove web governance suite
- Accountancy marketing case study – Grant Thornton and Lexis® Interaction® aligning partner KPIs with business objectives
- Legal Marketing Technology Case Studies – Highlights from Conscious Solutions “Marketing in a digital world”
- Property marketing case studies – Relationship management at DTZ, GVA, JLL, Knight Frank and Savills
- Accountancy marketing case studies – Strategy and relationship management at BDO, Grant Thornton and RSM International
- Legal marketing case studies – Strategy and relationship management at Bird & Bird, DLA Piper, Mills & Reeve and Obelisk
- Legal marketing case study: Improving referrals through reward systems at Keystone Law
- Legal Marketing Case Study – Rix & Kay thought leadership in the later life and care sectors
- Legal Marketing Case Study – Fisher Meredith family law services and so much more
- Accountancy marketing case study: Haines Watts accountants “For Love or Money” thought leadership campaign
- Legal marketing case studies – Digital marketing at The Law Society Law Management Conference 2017
- Accountancy marketing case study – From client referrals to sectors and social media
- Legal case study – Anatomy of a law firm merger (Ross & Craig and DMH Stallard)
- Property marketing case study – Client and key client relationship management at JLL
- Accountancy marketing case study – Manufacturing and engineering benchmarking thought leadership at MHA
- Property marketing case study – Key points from the EG property marketing conference 2018
- Legal marketing case study: Social media in business development and relationship management: A guide for lawyers by Kim Tasso (Book review)
- Legal marketing case study – Royds Withy King private client wealth proposition and new product Life Safe®
- Property marketing case study – Integrated campaign on farmland value from Savills rural team
- Strategy case studies and more matrices
- Market research: Professional services benchmark and accountancy profession statistics
- Spotlight on Richard Chaplin, PM Forum and Managing Partners’ Forum
- Linking pipeline and portfolio management to avoid strategic drift
- Blue Ocean Strategy for professional firms seeking new services?
- Strategic drift – a risk for partnerships
- McKinsey’s “Managing the strategy journey” says spend more time on strategy
- Strategy and scenario planning: Blowing the cobwebs off your mind workshop (with Allen & Overy)
- Book Review: Good strategy, Bad Strategy – The difference and why it matters by Richard Rumelt
- Competitive strategy for business growth: Process, practice and performance
- Strategic positioning: Can the professions constantly innovate?
- Grown-up corporate social responsibility and the regulatory environment - Strategy book on “Aligning for advantage” by Professor Thomas Lawton
- Book Review – “How to think strategically: Your roadmap to innovation and results” by Davide Sola and Jerome Couturier
- Book review: “Developing a business strategy – How to use strategic planning to start up or grow your business” FT Essential Guides by Vaughan Evans
- Strategy workshop: Skills, resources, involvement and tools for the journey
- Accountancy marketing case studies – Strategy and relationship management at BDO, Grant Thornton and RSM International
- Legal marketing case studies – Strategy and relationship management at Bird & Bird, DLA Piper, Mills & Reeve and Obelisk
- Legal marketing case studies – Strategy and relationship management at Bird & Bird, DLA Piper, Mills & Reeve and Obelisk
- Be more strategic – creating behaviour change
- Marketing planning in a nutshell – Selecting a strategy
- Being more strategic – Six insights (Bias, Data, Complexity, Tolerance, Journey, Skills)
- Strategy matters in turbulent times: Digital Transformation. Big Data. Business Models.
- Be more strategic – Look to the stars and keep it simple sailor
- Strategy development insights: Curiosity, challenge, creativity, co-creation, culture and change
- Book review: How to become the firm of choice by Robert J Lees and August J Aquila (strategy development)
- Strategic thinking – Audits, assumptions and alignment
- Strategy silos – is marketing guilty too? Align, integrate, focus, educate and champion
- Be more onion, time out from the tsunami and other strategy insights
- Book review: A practitioner’s guide to Account-Based Marketing (ABM) – Accelerating growth in strategic accounts by Bev Burgess with Dave Munn
- Improve your strategic thinking – Seven insights (2020)
- Be more strategic – Strategy in a post-Covid19 world
- Strategy basics – Mission and vision statements with hedgehogs and helicopters (Video)
- Strategic thinking – It’s a jungle out there
- Book review: Hope is not a strategy – the 6 keys to winning the complex sale by Rick Page
- Take them on the strategy journey
- Book review: B2B Marketing strategy – Differentiate, develop and deliver lasting customer engagement By Heidi Taylor
- Be more strategic – Eight insights (February 2022)
- Classic management book reviews – The McKinsey way, Good to great, How to manage organisational change and Strategic Selling
- Book review: Build your digital marketing strategy by Steve Brennan
- PM Conference Report 2022: Strategy implementation, Employer Value Propositions (EVP), Storytelling and Client Feedback
- Future Marketing/BD Manager – Build your personal brand and increase your strategic contribution (December 2022)
- Be more strategic – PESTLE, Positioning and Plans
- Strategy case studies and more matrices
- Be more strategic – A metaphor: Analyse, join and align the dots
- Market research: Professional services benchmark and accountancy profession statistics
- Strategy basics - Mintzberg
- Client Experience Management (CEM) – Research into the client journey at law firms
- Book review: Professional services leadership handbook by Nigel Clark, Ben Kent, Alastair Beddow and Adrian Furner
- Client Feedback – From the horse’s mouth: The Crown Estate, Surrey County Cricket Club and JUUL Laboratories (2018)
- Effective marketing – a discussion with managing partners
- Book Review: Malcolm McDonald on value propositions – How to develop them, how to quantify them (by Malcolm McDonald and Grant Oliver)
- Commerciality – Finance, pricing, innovation and research
- Why do you need a business plan?
- Law firm analysis – MHA Legal Benchmarking Annual Report 2020
- Learning from Lockdown – Positive outcomes from the Covid crisis for legal, accountancy and property sectors
- Managing a surveying practice – Resource management
- Law firm thought leadership update
- Managing client complaints – Process, anger and apologies
- Conference review: Rebooting Marketing for Growth – 26th Professional Marketing Forum Conference 2021
- Nine Marketing and Business Development trends in 2021
- Meridian West’s Marketing Leaders Benchmark 2022
- Next steps in growing a small surveying and property practice
- Book review: The Management Shift – How to harness the power of people and transform your organization for sustainable success by Vlatka Hlupic
- Be more strategic – PESTLE, Positioning and Plans
- Referrer Management Strategies – Rationale and Challenges
- 10 Trends – Annual International Marketing Benchmark by PM Forum and Meridian West
- Manage and grow your private client practice – Recruitment, Performance, Segmentation and ROI (February 2023)
- Be more strategic – A metaphor: Analyse, join and align the dots
- Roles, satisfaction and aspirations of Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) Assistants
- Market research: Professional services benchmark and accountancy profession statistics
- New Leadership Development Programme from the Managing Partners’ Forum – Consensus through Collaboration
- Coaching and Consulting skills – Limiting beliefs, approaches to helping and marketing consultancy
- The Proactive M&BD Executive – Culture shock, marketing models, fee-earner engagement, qualifications and social media
- Client satisfaction benchmarks – How do you measure up? (NPS)
Published On: December 9, 2022- Property merger - Segro and Brixton Estates
- New book published – Growing your property partnership
- Property Book Launch
- Property leadership - Ian Coull, Chief Executive of SEGRO
- Thought leadership campaigns – the basics
- White Paper: Apps by UK law, accountancy and property firms – Are we missing the mobile revolution?
- Perfect Pitches for Property People
- Property marketing case study – John Rushton at Small Back Room: Community, content and customer experience
- Property marketing case study – Will Wright at White Space: Branding and video seeding
- Property marketing case study – Antony Slumbers: a sense of place, experiential marketing and augmented reality
- Property marketing case study – Video at Knight Frank, Berwin Leighton Paisner and Estates Gazette
- Property marketing case study – CBRE at MIPIM with bears and bulls video and social media
- Property marketing: Trends and challenging convention (Summary of EG Property Marketing summit speech)
- Property Marketing: Digital or non-digital? (Land Securities)
- Property marketing – To social media or not to social media? (Knight Frank)
- Property Marketing Case Study – The power of brands in B2B and B2C (Cluttons, Workspace and CBRE)
- Steve Blank’s “lean start up” wins The Laurie Young Global Prize for Thought Leadership 2014
- Property marketing case studies – Relationship management at DTZ, GVA, JLL, Knight Frank and Savills
- Nine takeaways from the second annual Estates Gazette property marketing summit
- Legal Marketing Case Study – Rix & Kay thought leadership in the later life and care sectors
- Thought leadership lecture for Laurie Young – The future of the professions
- Book Review – The Thought Leadership Manual by Tim Prizeman
- Managing client service in surveying and property partnerships
- Leading a surveyors’ practice – Eight insights into leadership in property
- Recruitment and succession of surveyors – Human resources management for property partnerships
- Accountancy marketing case study: Haines Watts accountants “For Love or Money” thought leadership campaign
- Estates Gazette Property Marketing Summit 2017 – Goals, Digital, Innovation, Content, Video and Experience
- Property marketing case study – Client and key client relationship management at JLL
- Client feedback – From the horse’s mouth at the Professional Marketing Conference (CIM, TfL and FourFront Property)
- Thought leadership, campaigns and project management – Nine insights from a workshop (2017)
- Accountancy marketing case study – Manufacturing and engineering benchmarking thought leadership at MHA
- Property marketing case study – Key points from the EG property marketing conference 2018
- Thought leadership campaigns and project management: Eight Essentials
- Property marketing case study – Integrated campaign on farmland value from Savills rural team
- Nine reflections on thought leadership (2019)
- Property marketing case study – Transformational change in Savills’ bid processes
- Professional Services thought leadership update - FTI, Bidwells, Grist and Fieldfisher (November 2020)
- Learning from Lockdown – Positive outcomes from the Covid crisis for legal, accountancy and property sectors
- Reviewing books by legal and accounting clients – “Covid-19, residential property, equity release and enfranchisement” by Paul Sams and Louise Uphill and “Agile in Business – A guide for Company Leadership” by Robert Morley
- Law firm thought leadership update
- Three themes on campaign development and thought leadership – Education, Integration and Measurement (July 2021)
- Nine Marketing and Business Development trends in 2021
- How to write a successful property plan for your charity – presentation by the Ethical Property Foundation (EPF)
- Nine Change Management insights (May 2022)
- Next steps in growing a small surveying and property practice
- Five questions from a campaign, thought leadership and project management workshop
- Hooks, Headlines and Hard-Wired Words: 11 ideas for better writing
- Legal marketing case study – Thought leadership campaigns at Howard Kennedy (relationship breakdown and business agility)
- Soft skills revisited - with a leadership perspective
- Campaigns, thought leadership and project management – Early engagement, scoping and risk management
- Market research: Professional services benchmark and accountancy profession statistics
- Book review – Managing Brands
- Marketing in the Metaverse – An opportunity for professional services?
- Be more strategic – A metaphor: Analyse, join and align the dots
Published On: September 12, 2022- Book review – Persuasion: The art of influencing people by James Borg
- Book Review – Never split the difference: Negotiating as if your life depended on it by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
- Dealing with “difficult” people – Nine strategies for dealing with arrogance
- Managing client complaints – Process, anger and apologies
- Emotional Regulation – A key element of Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
- Research on leadership and emotional intelligence (EQ)
- Book review – Brilliant personal effectiveness by Douglas Miller
- Book review: The Awareness Code - The secrets to emotional empowerment for incredible leadership by Wayne Linton and Steve Tappin
- Don’t jump to conclusions - Coaching and Consulting skills (Expectations, Relationships, Listening, Goals and Implementation (February 2022))
- Nine Change Management insights (May 2022)
- Be visible, assert and challenge and remember your goals – Insights from an Assertiveness, impact and effectiveness workshop
- Book review: Mediation and dispute resolution – Contemporary issues and developments by Tony Whatling
- A general law of interpersonal relationships?
- Lonely at (or on the way to) the top? Coaching solutions
- Valuable resource on change management – The Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) Standard for Change Management
- Marketing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) – The power of reflection?
- Hooks, Headlines and Hard-Wired Words: 11 ideas for better writing
- What do you do when a male colleague doesn’t like women? (gender bias)
- Spotlight on Richard Chaplin, PM Forum and Managing Partners’ Forum
- Video – The art of storytelling
- What is curiosity and why is it important in business relationships? (Video)
- Book review: Mending the mind – The art and science of overcoming clinical depression (2021) by Oliver Kamm
- Book review – Why has nobody told me this before? Dr Julie Smith (Mental Health Guidance)
