Month: March 2013
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Bill Bernbach’s Resignation Letter To Grey
Bill Bernbach's 1947 letter to Grey before he started DDB: Dear collegues, Our agency is getting big. That's something to be happy about. But it's something to worry about, too, and I don't mind telling you I'm damned worried. I'm worried that we're going to fall into the trap of bigness, that we're going to…
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Managing by Anarchy
I've done a fair bit of work over the past couple of years on how organisations can adapt structures and resourcing to better equip themselves for the world in which we find ourselves, and so I'm always interested to read about approaches that challenge the norm. James said I should look at the way Github…
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Hackers and Casuals
Pats linked to this fascinating piece from Ajay Kulkarni at GroupMe talking about the challenges of designing for different audiences within the Android user base. Android, he says, is the 'Platypus of the mobile world…a complicated beast, a bizarre combination of two very different animals'. Those very different animals being the Hackers (early Android users…
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Redefining The Way We Think About Charity
A truly remarkable new TED talk from Dan Pallotta talking about how the way in which we view charities and charity giving is so fundamentally flawed and wholly limiting. Every now and then you hear a point of view that genuinely makes you reconsider the entire way in which you look at something. It doesn't…
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Speed Freak
"The Beethoven that you and I know, and that we all know, may in fact not be the Beethoven that Beethoven wanted us to know. We may be hearing his music in a way he did not intend at all." I was rather stopped in my tracks by this short Radiolab podcast about the speed…
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Post Of The Month – February 2013 – The Winner
Delighted to announce that this month's winner is Martin Weigel, whose excellent post/deck on brands, humility and indifference very narrowly beat James Caig's tale of the bottom half of culture. Well done to Martin, who is on something of a roll having won last month's vote as well. Thanks everyone for taking part.
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Post Of The Month – February 2013 – The Vote
Crikey. Yet another great list this month so thanks for the nominations. We also have a double nomination (James Caig) which is a true POTM rarity. So, our vote this month is between: Big Data – The Comedic Empty Vessel and Animal Spirits by Mark Hancock A Tale Of Humility and Indifference by Martin Weigel Keynesian Marketing…
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Post Of The Month – February 2013 – Nominations
It's time to nominate the best posts that you've read in the past month for Post Of The Month. If you read a post in February that you thought was particularly great, please leave the link in the comments. I've put up a starting list below, and once I have a few more I'll stick…