Kim TassoImprove your strategic thinking – Seven insights (2020)
Posted on: June 22, 2020
At the beginning of 2020 at a “Being more strategic” workshop by the Professional Marketing Forum the delegates – from a variety of legal, accountancy, property and consultancy firms – reflected on how to improve strategic thinking both in themselves and their firms. A further session is imminent and I will share some information about […]
Marketing in a time of Coronavirus – Pragmatic ideas
Posted on: May 7, 2020
“Love in a time of Cholera” by Gabriel García Márquez is a great book. It reflects many themes we are experiencing today such as the Coronavirus plague and the attempts to maintain relationships across great distances. So what about marketing in a time of Coronavirus? Once professional service firms transitioned staff to working from home […]
Why do you need a business plan?
Posted on: March 2, 2020
Many of the clients I work with in the legal, accountancy, property and other sectors are relatively small but fast-growing businesses with up to 30 owner-managers. It is surprising the number of them that either don’t have a business plan or have a plan that is out-of-date or that doesn’t include all of the right […]
Don’t try to eat the white elephant whole – thoughts on change management and leadership
Posted on: November 18, 2019
At the recent “Change management and leadership” workshop run by Professional Marketing Forum https://www.pmforum.co.uk/training.aspx we experimented with different tools and techniques to help lead and manage change. But one thing that the delegates focused on was “Don’t try to eat the white elephant whole”. Let me explain our thoughts on managing change and leadership. What’s […]
Book review: Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness by Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein
Posted on: October 24, 2019
Behavioural science is a popular topic at the moment and “Nudge: Improving decision about health, wealth and happiness” was published back in 2008. It has particular resonance in professional services as co-author Sunstein is a professor at an American law school. The basic premise is that we do not decisions rationally like an “Econ” but […]