Leadership

McKinsey’s “Managing the strategy journey” says spend more time on strategy

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

2024-04-16T21:04:31+01:00August 2, 2012|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Strategy|

BOOK REVIEW: Mastering story, community and influence: How to use social media to build your tribe By Jay Oatway

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

2015-12-11T17:39:54+00:00July 25, 2012|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Relationship Management, Social Media|

Mischcon de Reya – a law firm that seems to have got it right?

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

2013-08-08T19:57:23+01:00July 20, 2012|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Strategy|

What is NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)?

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

2024-07-02T17:47:35+01:00July 16, 2012|Kim's Blog, Relationship Management, Selling|

Reflections on Managing Change and Leadership (with book list)

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

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