Year: 2018
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Shipped in 2018
Sometimes it's good to take a step back from the rush of the day-to-day and really look at the bigger picture of what you do in order to take stock. So every year around this time I write a sort of review of what I've been up to work-wise as a thinking-out-loud way of doing…
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Post of the Month – November 2018 – The Winner
Well we had something of a runaway winner in this month's vote – Imali Hettiarachchi's excellent post Dear White Men, We Need You won by a resounding margin. So well done Imali – you join the hall of fame. My thanks to all who took part.
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Post of the Month – November 2018 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations all. So this month’s vote is between: Adding Value, by Adding Values by Ben Terrett A Rocker’s Guide to Management by Ian Leslie It’s time for employers to realise that work will never be more important than our children by Amelia Torode Dear White Men, We Need You by Imali Hettiarachchi ‘The Best for the Most…
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Post of the Month – November 2018 – Nominations
It's time to open nominations for Post of the Month. So if there is a post that you've read over the past month that you thought was particularly good, please do nominate it in the comments below or direct. As soon as I have a good number on the shortlist I'll stick them up for…
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Google Firestarters 30: The Brilliance and Brutalisation of Insight
Last Wednesday we had a properly fascinating Google Firestarters for the planning and strategy community, tackling a much discussed but perhaps often misunderstood theme – insight. We had three brilliant, and brilliantly different, speakers who all took different takes on the theme. Rob Campbell, EMEA Head of Strategy at R/GA (and ex W & K Shanghai and…
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Google Performance Firestarters – The Future of Search
Last Tuesday we ran the fourth Google Firestarters of the year for the Performance Marketing community. It being Google's twentieth anniversary we took as our theme the present and future of search, and challenged a great line-up of speakers to consider not only where search is now, but what the next twenty years might look…
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Post of the Month – October 2018 – The Winner
It was a pretty even vote this month, and Martin Weigel's brilliant Escape From Fantasy post did well but happy to say that in the end it was Rachel Mercer's excellent Heretics of Advertising: The (Forgotten) Craft presentation that won. Well done to Rachel – you join the hall of fame. Thanks to everyone that took part.
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Post of the Month – October 2018 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Heretics of Advertising: The (Forgotten) Craft by Rachel Mercer Escape From Fantasy by Martin Weigel How to Win an IPA Effectiveness Award by Tom Roach No more ‘struggle porn’ by Nat Eliason User Research is a Team Sport by Will Myddelton And you can vote below:
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Post of the Month – October 2018 – Nominations
It's time to open nominations for Post of the Month. As always I have a starting list which I've set out below but please do add to these nominations with posts that you've read over the past month which you thought were particularly good. As soon as I have a good number I'll put them…
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Getting Things Done in Large Organisations
When I work with leadership teams in big companies it's often apparent just how hard it is to get (new) things off the ground. It's almost as if the company is set up to thwart people who want to create something new and different. Which is why I loved this from Kumar Garg, who worked…