Two recent but very different articles on leadership attracted my attention. Star Trek Forbes published “Five leadership lessons from James T Kirk” in May http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/03/05/five-leadership-lessons-from-james-t-kirk/. It’s a neat way to get across some key messages – with evidence from the Enterprise’s caption: Never stop learning Be a “walking stack of Read More
I spent yesterday at the lovely Fanhams Hall Hotel in Hertfordshire with the 12 law firms who make up Law South. There were four speakers (Professor Richard Susskind OBE, Nick Jarrett-Kerr, Tim Aspinall of DMH Stallard and myself) and two interactive sessions with the 50 or so members using electronic Read More
I have just published a short article on this topic for Delia Venables’ Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. They key points covered include: Recruiting your own marketing person Existing active programme of activities? Level of involvement of partners/lawyers? Generalist or specialist? Tactical or strategist? Detailed job description? How will you measure Read More
One of the most thought provoking questions I think I was ever asked was “Do you fear the future?”. And it must have been running through the minds of the 530 or so delegates at the LawTech Futures conference in Victoria yesterday as we listened to two leading futurologists. Charles Read More
I've been a judge on these awards for many years and it's always great to go along to the dinner and ceremony to see the lucky winners hear the news of their success and receive their gongs. So I glammed up as best I could and travelled to the Marriott Read More