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6 counter-intuitive market trends – Books, luxury goods, universities, small businesses, feminisation and older women

Having just surfaced from a mountain of research, I’ve plucked these gems out as counter-intuitive market trends that could have an impact on your business or marketing strategy  1.     Book publishing growth  Whilst we may think that electronic books have taken over, there were 530,000 new books published in 2011 Read More

2014-02-14T12:15:23+00:00February 14, 2014|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

Half year review of law firm strategy and finance

In August 2013, I wrote a review of law firm strategy and finance http://kimtasso.com/half-year-review-of-law-firm-strategy-and-finance/.  As it was so popular with clients, students and colleagues I have repeated the process concentrating – using The Lawyer magazine - on developments in the latter half of 2013. Many of the themes and trends Read More

2014-02-03T09:16:01+00:00February 3, 2014|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

UK accountancy market trends

There was an interesting piece on growth and UK accountancy market trends in Accountancy Age on 13 January looking at the trends within top 100 accountancy practices (http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/analysis/2322595/full-top50-50-analysis-mixed-bag-of-success?utm_term=&utm_content=headline_title&utm_campaign=AA.Best_Practice_RL.EU.A.U&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=AA.DCM.Editors_Updates) The main points were: There were 12 new entrants into the market – in some ways this is encouraging as it shows Read More

2014-01-24T09:52:10+00:00January 24, 2014|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

Book review: “How to win friends and influence people” by Dale Carnegie – Still a valuable guide

I first read "How to win friends and influence people" way back in January 1984. That’s nearly 30 years ago (the book was actually written back in 1938). It had a profound effect on me - despite the fact that I am a psychologist and have read thousands of books Read More

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