An interesting paper from the masters of strategy arrived earlier this month. The essence of their previous argument was that “the only way to set strategy effectively during uncertain times was to bring together, much more frequently, the members of the top team, who were uniquely positioned to surface critical Read More
The favourite of all the many courses I have studied was the creativity and innovation module in my MBA. So it was interesting to read about a creativity roundtable of leading academics from innovation, psychology and creative writing backgrounds in a recent edition of the Open University’s Open Minds magazine. Read More
As I have blogged before about Mischon de Reya, (most recently http://kimtasso.com/collaborative-marketing-of-family-law-services-debretts-and-mishcon-de-reya and http://kimtasso.com/legal-marketing-case-study-mishcon-de-reya) it was interesting to read the article about the firm in a recent edition of The Lawyer http://www.thelawyer.com/reya-light/1013344.article Some of the key themes that emerge as to the key to its success include: A strong managing partner Read More
At the start of July, I ran another of the popular PM courses on “Managing Change and Leadership” http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/index.aspx. As usual, I promised the delegates a summary from the session and the delay was due to me reviewing a new book on Managing Change (see below). We started the session with Read More
Remember that book “101 uses for a dead cat?” Despite being a cat lover (I have four) I found it funny. What I find less funny is what is happening to large numbers of personal injury lawyers at the moment. Yes, of course there are some bad PI lawyers, as Read More
