Month: November 2017
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Google Firestarters – Change and Complexity – The Event
For our recent Google Firestarters (our 26th!), we revisited a successful format that we first did two years ago. In 2015, in one of our most successful Firestarters ever, seven of the best minds in the industry gave a ten minute perspective in […]
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The Unit of Delivery
There’s a great interview with Tom Loosemore (Group Director of Digital Services at the Co-Op and ex-Govt Digital Service) talking about the digital transformation of public services in the latest issue of Offscreen magazine. One of my favourite quotes from it is […]
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Creativity vs Productivity
Jason Kottke had a thought-provoking post about how a focus on productivity and optimising our time might actually be harmful to creating the kind of space we need to allow our minds to wonder, to play and experiment, and to take those […]
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Post of the Month – October 2017 – The Winner
A lively vote this month (thanks to everyone that took part) but happy to say that the winner of Post of the Month is Tom Morton with his post over on the APG site (scroll down to read) on How To Get On: […]
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Google Firestarters 26: The Return of The Magnificent Seven
In 2015, in one of our most successful Firestarters ever, seven of the best minds in the industry gave a short, punchy perspective in answer to a single question - what's the best thing that you've learned in your career? Two years […]
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Post of the Month – October 2017 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations everyone. So our vote this month is between: How To Get On: Gen X Edition by Tom Morton (scroll down to see the post) Lady Gaga, the joy of data and why it pays not to be seduced too […]
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Post of the Month – October 2017 – Nominations
Golly. I've just realised that we've been doing Post of the Month here for nine years (!). Anyhow, it's time for October 2017 nominations so as always if you have any posts that you've read over the past month and that you […]