As the New Year starts we think about new beginnings. We think about change. But whether you are business owner, a senior executive or a junior marketer you are likely to face the same challenge of a lack of time to do and achieve everything you want. So here is Read More
TED’s mission is to nurture the spread of powerful ideas. Anyone who has seen a TED talk knows that they are expert, entertaining, often emotional and always compelling. And never more than 18 minutes. So while many business presentations might not be suitable for the full TED treatment, there must Read More
I’ve read a lot of books on negotiation. And this 270-page “leader’s guide to negotiation – how to use soft skills to get hard results” by Simon Horton is up there with my favourites. It’s stuffed full of research and useful insights from psychology. It provides a plethora of helpful Read More
These were just a few of the themes igniting the passions of marketing and business development people from professional service firms at the recent PM "Stakeholder management and buy-in" training workshop. I think it’s fair to say that there was a little therapy going on before we got down to business Read More
This leader article: "There's a real person behind that Persona" was originally published in the Summer 2016 edition of Professional Marketing magazine for PM Forum members. Don’t get me wrong. I’m delighted to see the professionalization of marketing and business development supported by sophisticated software. There are amazing analytics programmes Read More
