Year: 2014
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Change is a Process, Not an Event
These are four paintings by the artist Stephen Taylor. They are four of my favourite paintings, and I have copies of them hanging in my living room. I wrote about Stephen here. He spent most of two years in a wheat field in East Anglia painting the same oak tree. He painted it in a huge…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: A great post from Edward Boches on lessons in creativity and collaboration from Herbie Hancock (above) In HBR - the first strategic question every business must ask “I know a lot of people have very strong and definite plans that they’ve worked out on all kinds of things, but we’re subject to…
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Google Firestarters 11 – The Strategy is Delivery
Exciting news. Google Firestarters is back, and for our eleventh event we've got a speaker whom I've wanted to have at Firestarters since we began almost three years ago – Russell Davies. So I'm really excited that we've managed to make it happen. Regular readers will know of my longheld admiration for what the Government…
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Empirical Creativity
Maria Popova has a fascinating review of Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck's book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. She describes how Dweck speaks of a fundamental difference in how we view our personality, and between what she calls 'fixed' and 'growth' mindsets. "A 'fixed mindset' assumes that our character, intelligence, and creative ability are static givens which…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links from this week, as curated by Fraggl: A really interesting special report from The Economist (PDF) on tech startups Pair that with Venturebeat's look at the 6 hottest startups in London for 2014 'As time went on, the face showed the distinction between the two but when the emotion first hit the face signals are very similar suggesting, the…
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What Is Content Strategy?
I've just completed some work for Econsultancy researching and authoring a Best Practice Guide to Content Strategy. It was a fascinating piece of work, not least because content is such a growing area of focus for so many organisations right now, but also because the concept of Content Strategy remains relatively ill-defined. For a start,…
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Post Of The Month – January 2013 – The Winner
Delifghted to say that the winner of this month's Post Of The Month is Patricia McDonald with the excellent The WInter of our Discontent, which really led the vote from the beginning. So well done Pats, you get the props of your peers and are entered into the Hall Of Fame. Thanks everyone for taking part.
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Post Of The Month – January 2013 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: The WInter of our Discontent from Patricia McDonald Don’t Get Bigger, Get Wierder: Things I’ve learnt From Five Years of The Story by Matt Locke Fracking The Attention Deposits by Toby Barnes How to Disrupt Yourself: The High Costs and Benefits of Hiring Misfits from Bud Caddell Insight…
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Post Of The Month – January 2013 – Nominations
Almost an embarassment of riches this month to choose from but I've listed just a few of my favourite posts that were posted in January below. Please do add to these nominations in the comments below or direct, and as usual I will put them all up for a vote in a day or two.…