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Book review: “The change catalyst – secrets to successful and sustainable business change” by Campbell MacPherson (Change Management)

I was at the Business Book Awards https://www.businessbookawards.co.uk/  in March. I saw Campbell’s humble and humorous acceptance speech when this book scooped the overall winner prize. The judges’ glowing commendations  meant that I simply had to read it. The change catalyst is indeed a great book. It's beautifully written and a Read More

2018-09-26T14:23:53+01:00September 26, 2018|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Strategy|

Be more strategic – Look to the stars and keep it simple sailor

At a recent " Be more strategic " training workshop http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ the delegates summarised their rather full and intensive day by preparing presentations to summarise and highlight the key points that they had learned. Sailing as a metaphor for strategy One of the presentations used the metaphor of sailing a ship Read More

2016-11-28T17:42:41+00:00November 28, 2016|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property, Strategy|

Six insights into managing a surveyors’ practice (2016)

At last week’s “Managing and marketing a profitable surveyors’ practice” workshop in Glasgow, where the focus was on how to achieve profitable growth, the delegates identified six insights into managing a surveyors’ practice  1. Produce a (short) strategic business plan Some firms had a business plan that needed to be Read More

2016-02-26T10:05:04+00:00February 26, 2016|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Property, Social Media, Strategy|
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