15 Nov, 2019 Distributed leadership, niche expertise, incredible technology and a bunch of 20 somethings meant Man landed on the Moon 50 years ago.... By James Barclay Today I am at VC Fintech Collective's annual event in NYC. It has been amazing to listen to Kevin Fong OBE tell his story about making...
04 Nov, 2019 The Importance of Diversity in Distributed Leadership By Connor Kinnear Katie Nagy De Nagybaczon from law firm CMS spoke at Passle's second annual Rainmaker event earlier this year in London. Below is the...
05 Aug, 2019 What good leaders do. Going big and fast. By Will Eke It is tough being a CEO. Of course, I am commenting on something that I have no direct experience in having never been and more than...
01 Jul, 2019 Two power structures coexist in large organisations By Adam Elgar Helen Bevan's speech at Rainmaker 2019 was quite brilliant and covered a lot of ground starting with framing the scales of the challenges...
01 Jul, 2019 Diverse teams are strong teams - what are you doing? By Sarah Strachan The theme of our annual Rainmaker event this year was Distributed Leadership. Our four fantastic speakers addressed the need for...
28 May, 2019 Cultivate, don't dictate the culture at your firm. By Will Eke I attended an event hosted by one of our clients last week and it was titled 'managing the workplace risks of using social media' and was...
24 Apr, 2019 Cross-selling isn't sales, it's enhancing your client's wealth By Adam Elgar The Professional Services sector has in each discipline, a number of very large firms because there is an inherent advantage to being...
15 Apr, 2019 Is bigger just better in law? By Adam Elgar I was fortunate enough to meet with the senior partners of two companies last week, one a corporate financier and the other a large law...
13 Mar, 2019 Why diversity is critical to leadership in professional services firms By Adam Elgar When I was growing up in rural Oxfordshire, the landscape was dominated by huge, ancient Elm trees. However, during the 1970's Dutch Elm...
08 Feb, 2019 The astonishing importance of incremental gains. By Adam Elgar Growing by 37x in a year or contracting by 97%. That is the compound mathematical effect of being 1% better every day, instead of 1%...
02 Jan, 2019 Passle podcast EP1 - 5 minutes on Distributed Leadership By Adam Elgar In this episode, Sam Page & I discuss how advisory and consulting firms have different leaders responsible for different aspects of their...
02 Jan, 2019 Why do you brush your teeth? Consistency: how the accumulation of your actions leads to success By Freddy Dobinson What does brushing your teeth for 2 minutes achieve? Absolutely nothing unless you do it twice a day, every day. It is the consistency....
05 Dec, 2018 Digital transformation - Enable and empower those that want to lead By James Barclay Unfortunately and unsurprisingly you cannot decide at HQ after a week of brainstorming and some group sessions to do 'Digital...
04 Dec, 2018 The Physics behind Distributed Leadership By Freddy Dobinson Imagine you are the only point of contact for every last one of your firm's clients. Within a complex or multinational organisation, you...
30 Nov, 2018 "Leadership as a process" is at the core of many world-leading organisations By Tom Elgar The recent, often VC-driven "cult of the CEO" suggests that for a company to succeed, the leader must define a clear direction for their...
28 Nov, 2018 “Great leaders do not create followers, they create more leaders.” Tom Peters By Adam Elgar I met with a CMO of a leading law firm a while back and he was describing how his firm's direction was determined by "Four hundred...