I’ve written a fair amount about strategy (see the links below) but I thought it might be worth going back to some basics. So here's some strategy basics -Mintzberg (who I often talk about in training sessions in the context of emergent strategy). In 1987, he provided five Ps for Read More
There was an unfortunate article recently in one of the legal magazines that provided a rather damning view of the history of marketing in the profession. On the basis of interviews with a handful of people, it asserted that most marketers involved in legal marketing in the past were no Read More
You will remember in Aladdin that the sorcerer tricks Aladdin’s wife into giving up the lamp containing the genie by offering to exchange “new lamps for old”. Perhaps there’s a moral in that story for professional service firms. I’ve noticed that a number of smaller legal, accountancy and property firms Read More
As a psychology graduate, I wasn’t that impressed by NLP but perhaps that is because I had already learned much of what it has to offer. I took the trouble to qualify as a practitioner back in 2007 to confirm my views that it is effectively a simplified form of 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
