I watched a YouTube video yesterday by one of the current A-List strategy theorists, Richard Makadok. He spoke of a ‘cue ball effect’ (as in snooker).
Much has been written about competitive advantage and its benefit for firms, but little about its impact on rivals. In theory, a firm gaining competitive advantage hurts its closest
From a theoretical perspective, management science distinguishes clearly between the concepts of a strategy, and the business model used to drive the firm and achieve that strategy. The two can overlap when it comes to strategy implementation, though, because actions intended to achieve strategic objectives also impact the business model.
Does this matter, in practical
PPA Webinar – 14 April 2021 at 9:30AM London time
In another of the series of Professional Practice Alliance (PPA) webinars, Rob Millard will join Oliver Richards(Founder and Practice Co-Director of Orms Designers + Architects Ltd) Beth Hale (Partnership and Employment Law specialist at law firm CM Murray LLP) and chairperson Corinne Staves (Partnership
It’s very trendy to start writings like these with how uncertain the world is today, compared to the past. The future, some say, is not what it used to be. I’m not sure that’s true, at least as a general rule. If anything, the ease and speed with which information is transmitted around the world
This post is scripted from an IBA webinar today, most ably moderated by Stephen Revell, which I was privileged to co-present with Elizabeth Cooper, Maria-Pia Hope, Steve Martin and Segun Osuntokun. At the time I was physically located on a remote hilltop in the Isles of Scilly, 25 miles into the
Herewith a link to the podcast of a Professional Practice Alliance (PPA) webinar which I co-presented on 12 August on the topic:
Partner Reward – Metrics, Measurements and the Link with Profit-Sharing
Herewith a link to a podcast of a Professional Practice Alliance (PPA) webinar that I co-presented on 8 July, on the topic:
Gold is apparently trading this morning at $1780 per ounce. Assuming no religious or ethical obstacles, would you bet more money than you could afford to lose (against reasonable odds, of course) that the price will be within 10% more or less than that …. tomorrow? Say, between $1,600 and $2,000 per ounce?
Would you
Earlier today, on a webinar about future legal skills, I was asked to mention a thing that I wish I’d learned far earlier in my career. I did and I’ll blog about that later, but this post I’m going to devote instead to something else that I also mentioned on the webinar, that I am
At this time, with our attention consumed by COVID-19’s death toll and the impact on the world’s economies together with deeply upsetting upwellings of racial anger in the United States, it is easy in the UK to lose sight of another disaster potentially looming. A no-deal Brexit in just over six months. (You hadn’t forgotten
