Month: August 2013
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Why Don’t Big Companies Innovate More?
I loved this answer from Matt Edgar to the above question, which I found via a tweet from Aden: 'My favourite observation on innovation is in Bruno Latour's 'Aramis': "a project is considered innovative when the number of actors is not known at the outset." Apply this to small and large companies.A start-up enters the world…
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Marketing For Good
Lots of brands and agencies have initiatives for social good. But what if you could really embed that premise into everything that you do? Last week I spoke at the Google Talent Revolution event in London. Also on the bill was social entrepreneur Sam Conniff, who is the Chairman of youth marketing and engagement agency Livity. Sam…
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The Stupid Manager Theory
I like the point made in this piece on Steve Ballmer's legacy at Microsoft about how often the direct impact of CEOs is overplayed: 'The most common, almost universally accepted reason for company failure is “the stupid manager theory”. It’s the corollary to “the smart manager theory” which is used to describe almost all company…
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The Modern Spice Routes
PayPal have just released a report on cross-border shopping – the increasingly common practice of people using the internet to shop directly from suppliers and merchants all over the world (you have to register to get the full report but there's a PDF summary of it here). Drawing on data from Nielsen who analysed the shopping…
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Marina and Ulay
The Kickstarter 'Projects We Love' email told me about performance artist Marina Abramovic's endeavour to fund 'a living, breathing museum for performance art, where attendees not only visit, but participate.' Marina is famous of-course for (amongst many other things) her performace piece The Artist Is Present which in 2010 broke MoMA attendance records and which saw…
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Post Of The Month – July 2013 – The Winner
A strong early lead for Bud Caddell's Digital Strategy 101 proved unassailable so his post and deck wins this months vote. Well done to Bud (you are of-course entered into the hall of fame) and thanks to everyone for taking part.
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Post Of The Month – July 2013 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. Our vote this month is between: The Crime Of Ownerism by Andy Nairn Digital Strategy 101 by Bud Caddell Annual Plans Must Die from Paul Isakson How to Become a Master Planner from Paul Isakson How To Make the Right Product by Andy Whitlock Do Things That Don't Scale from Paul Graham Why I'm Hiring Graduates…
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Post Of The Month – July 2013 – Nominations
Slightly later than usual due to holiday but it's time to open up for nominations for Post Of The Month. As usual, I've listed a few starters below (which includes two from Paul Isakson) but please add your own nominations in the comments for good posts that were put up in July and I'll add…
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Dealing With Worry
"Set aside 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the evening to do nothing but worry about the future." Playing catch up post-holiday (and not entirely unconcerned about the volume of email I would face whilst firing up my Gmail after a two week hiatus) I happened across Maria Popova's excellent post on…