On Friday I trotted along to the offices of Smith & Williamson to hear from the second Financial Times/Managing Partner Forum research by Meridian West (formerly Lighthouse) into effective client adviser relationships. Richard Chaplin mentioned that professional services is the largest sector in the UK and the only one to have Read More
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