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
Calista recently produced a report called “Top 200 law firm survey…Twitter” covering the period up to 1st November 2011. It’s key findings were: There are 284 Twitter accounts with nearly 86,500 followers held by the top 20 law firms (190 in the top 100) 24% of top 100 firms are not Read More
Most marketers in the professions understand the value of thought leadership as a tool for positioning a firm, creating new markets and services, driving innovation and, of course, raising profile and generating leads and interest from clients and potential clients. But what I perhaps hadn’t appreciated was how important it Read More
Tim Prizeman’s Kelso Consulting has produced a great report on this subject which is available from http://www.kelsopr.com/downloads He reports that there has been a dramatic rise in LinkedIn usage amongst the larger firms with almost half the personnel having a LinkedIn account compared to under a quarter last year. Law Read More
Last Tuesday I took myself along to the 16th PSMG Annual Conference – it’s a rare but pleasant occasion when I am purely in delegate mode rather than speaking or running a workshop. The venue – America Square Conference Centre – was marvellous, the rooms were gleaming white with cheerful red Read More