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Managing Partners’ Forum Strategy Summit

Red Star Kim

My takeaways from the insightful facilitators and panellists were: Recruitment of lawyers is down on previous years whereas business support is up Increase in tax hires in law firms Increase in marketing roles (exceeding 2019 numbers) Whilst training/learning roles shrunk compared to 2019 there was an increase in employee relations roles Legal sector (..)

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Startup Funding: What It Is, How It Works, & 5 Tips for Landing It

Hubspot Sales

It's not uncommon for an innovative startup to raise a few million in one to two rounds, while another company raises $25 million in the same number of rounds. This capital helps a startup finance its first steps, like conducting product research, launching a product, marketing to a target audience, and building an audience.

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Be more strategic – PESTLE, Positioning and Plans

Red Star Kim

Commerciality – Finance, pricing, innovation and research (kimtasso.com). Specifically, a M&BD team may need far more detailed plans than fee-earners who will prefer a high-level summary showing the main actions required. Planning resources: Why do you need a business plan? Positioning.

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Strategic Planning Failure: Why It Happens and How to Avoid It

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A practical internal organization should focus on a steady upscale by defining specialized roles, strengthening management structure, planning, forecasting and sustaining culture. Poor Managerial Skills or Lack of Leadership Managers and leaders can heavily influence productivity, revenue, innovation and turnover.

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Coaching and Consulting skills – Limiting beliefs, approaches to helping and marketing consultancy

Red Star Kim

Need to have experience and expertise Experts who think out of the box If sector specific advice/team, they expect us to know that sector and the target audience. Actively learning ourselves and managing time effectively.

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Be more strategic – A metaphor: Analyse, join and align the dots

Red Star Kim

Then we consider data about our internal environment – our finances, our people, our services, our marketing and business development, our systems, our culture etc. We obtain data about our external environment – using a PESTLE analysis , competitor analysis and understanding trends in our markets, sectors and clients.

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Should You Start a Business in Uncertain Times? What Research & Real Business Owners Say

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Pedigo is a CPA who writes tax, accounting , and finance content exclusively for CPAs, tax accountants, and financial advisors. if you already know what you want to do and are sure there's a market for your product or service, then starting a business in uncertain times is no different than starting one in certain times,” said Pedigo. “I