Leadership shapes

Leadership is always one of the trickiest strategic subjects to be objective about in Briefing. While you can have some processes and policies around it, unlike that natural partner in business progress – management – there are aspects of the job that seem quite a lot harder to pin down. How do you put together a business case for building a vision and uniting your workforce? Some might say it’s just blindingly obvious it needs to be done – and quickly – but at what cost exactly?

LEADING EDGES

A lot is written about the impact of a generation of millennials on traditional professions and workplaces like legal. But are business leaders really changing their ways in response? Richard Brent takes the pulse from current and former leaders, including at Eversheds Sutherland, Kingsley Napley, RPC, international network Globallaw and Cass Business School

LEGO AND LISTEN

Briefing Transformation 2018 heard collaboration is critical to success. We happily cut through the jargon to something of business management substance for all who cared to join in. Contributors to the day included experts from BT, CMS, DLA Piper, DWF, Browne Jacobson, KPMG, Harvard Law School and many an insightful GC

PINNACLE OF POWERS

Briefing hears from the four principals of Pinnacle – Mike Bailey, Christopher Young, Kevin Smith and Neil Renfrew – about why the ideal law firm and consultancy partnership combines system specialisation and broad coverage of the complete business change journey