Nicky Richmond is the joint managing partner and one of four equity partners at West End property law practice Brecher. There are over 30 lawyers and a number of new lateral hires – from City firms and specialist boutiques – are due to join soon. She kindly shared her experiences Read More
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
Some recent statistics released from official sources: LEGAL Repeat offenders: Ministry of Justice show that 102,310 people convicted in 2011 – nearly a third of the overall total of offenders – had committed 15 or more crimes. 70,000 men had committed between seven and 14 crimes. Average jail sentences: Average jail Read More
I’ve just written a review of this book for Professional Marketing magazine http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/index.aspx which will be published shortly. Whilst I bristled a little at the unusual, sound bite and social media speak, I did quite enjoy it once I got going and found it to be the sort of sensible, grown 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
