management skills

5 min read 2023-03-22 22:16:57

Book review: Connected leadership – How professional relationships underpin executive success by Andy Lopata

I’ve read many books on professional relationships – and I’ve even written one myself (see Better Business Relationships book by Kim Tasso

4 min read 2023-03-18 00:23:51

A fellow tutor at Cambridge Marketing College – Neil Wilkins – has completed significant research into marketing in the metaverse. He shared

8 min read 2023-03-10 21:44:59

Back in 2019 I reviewed a book about depression (see Lost connections – Why you’re depressed by Johann Hari (kimtasso.com)) which was dismissive

5 min read 2023-03-07 15:53:05

A key theme arising at the March PM Forum “Future Marketing/Business Development Manager” (with delegates from legal, accountancy and

4 min read 2023-03-01 11:04:25

Working with constant interruption and too little sleep has an impact on the body similar to alcohol and substance addiction. It also results in bad

4 min read 2023-02-16 21:24:06

I am constantly looking out for new material and best practice to incorporate into my strategy workshops. Occasionally, I summarise the key ideas –

10 min read 2023-02-14 18:22:29

At the start of February it was a full house of delegates from accountancy, law and consultancy firms (including from Hong Kong) at the PM Forum’s

5 min read 2023-02-09 22:32:05

This was a question posed to me recently by a woman at a workshop. Whilst this question is about prejudice towards women (sex and gender bias) it

6 min read 2023-01-23 16:35:10

This article was published in the January 2023 edition of Counsel magazine. January 2023 | COUNSEL | The Magazine of the Bar of England and Wales

6 min read 2023-01-05 17:29:04

At the MBL online workshop “Developing more work from referrers and intermediaries” just before Christmas all delegates were from law firms

1 min read 2023-01-03 17:14:28

Where did 2022 go? It seemed to fly past. So now we are looking at how we might do things differently and better in 2023. One task will be to plan

5 min read 2022-12-15 00:06:33

Early in December we enjoyed an interactive and productive day at Taylor Wessing (Thank you for hosting!) for a day workshop on “Future

7 min read 2022-11-22 21:57:07

Creativity is crucial for marketing and innovation and a while back I produced a series of introductory articles on creativity. In recent workshops

5 min read 2022-11-08 20:44:06

This article “Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective” has just been published on Lexology. Back in July 2020 I shared some

3 min read 2022-11-02 23:58:13

I facilitated an inhouse change management workshop for a law firm recently. We looked at change management through the lens of both individual and