Month: May 2015
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Google Firestarters 16 – The Magnificent Seven
For our next London Google Firestarters event we have an absolutely stellar line up. We are bringing together seven of the smartest brains in strategy and planning to answer a simple but compelling question: What is the most useful thing that you have learned to date in your career? That’s it. No gimmicks, no long drawn…
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Creativity in Business
This, from The Book of Life: "…business creativity is a little different from artistic creativity. A company is a group of individuals gathered together to solve a problem for other people. This helps to define what the true focus of business creativity should be: intense and lateral thinking about what could be missing from the…
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On Agencies Going Upstream
Simon Veksner makes a good point in this post written in response to this Ad Week piece that suggests that the future of agency value lies upstream of the communications brief, and in agencies getting more intricately involved in the 'depths' of a client business, becoming 'true general contractors'. Presumably, says Simon, this means going into…
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On Worrying
As I said here, I don't necessarily think that I worry more than most (but then who knows, and this is the second time I've written about worrying in two years) but I do dislike how self-sabotaging and unproductive it can be. Which is one of the reasons that I loved this commencement address by poet…
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Podcast on Transformation
Last week I met with the smart and energetic Minter Dial to record a podcast. We talked about a number of things including digital transformation, Google Firestarters and Fraggl. And I said the word 'so' a lot. You can give it a listen here: http://www.buzzsprout.com/2877/272907.js?player=small
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Google Firestarters Comes to LA
More exciting Google Firestarters news. I'm delighted to announce that we'll be running our first ever Firestarters in LA on Tuesday May 26th, at the Google Office in Venice. Somewhat appropriately for our first ever event in LA we'll be focusing on how how brands can work with the new face of celebrity and contemporary 'engines of culture'…
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Post of the Month – April 2015 – The Winner
After being shortlisted several times, delighted to say that Tom Goodwin has won this month's Post of the Month vote with his post on how You Don't Need a Digital Strategy, You Need a Digitally Transformed Company. Well done Tom. You join the hall of fame. My thanks to everyone for taking part.
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Post of the Month – April 2015 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations everyone. Our vote for this month is between: Look and Feel and Feel by Jason Fried Applauding Sleight of Hand by Faris Yakob The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teams from Toph Brown You Don’t Need a Digital Strategy, You Need a Digitally Transformed Company by Tom Goodwin The Full Stack Employee by Chris Messina…
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Post of the Month – April 2015 – Nominations
It's Post of the Month time again. If you have any good things that you've read from the past month and that you think are worth nominating, please do so in the comments below or direct. As always I have a few starters listed below but please do add to these. So my starting list…
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Visual Cues, Habits and Motivation
My first job after University (which was actually a Polytechnic if you can remember back when there were such things) was selling space in recruitment directories. There was a recession on at the time (hence very few jobs for graduates with non-vocational degrees) and I kind of fell into it. But in many ways I…