Year: 2019
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Post of the Month – August 2019 – Nominations
Gosh. It's Post of the Month time again. Which means that it's time to nominate good reads that you've digested over the past month so that I can put them all up for a vote. As usual I have a few starting nominations below but please do add to these with your own by leaving…
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Google Firestarters 32 – AI and Algorithms, Efficiency and Effectiveness – The Event
'If you want an answer in the future you will ask a machine. The role of humans will be to ask questions. Great question creators will generate new industries, new brands and new possibilities.' Kevin Kelly Monday evening saw the latest Google Firestarters event and for this one we brought together the planning and performance marketing…
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Google Firestarters 32 – AI and Algorithms, Efficiency and Effectiveness
The next Google Firestarters is upon us and is happening at Google London, next Monday 2nd September, at 6pm (I'm announcing this slightly later than usual due to holiday). We run two strands of Firestarters events – one for the planning and strategy community and one for performance marketers – and over the past couple…
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Post of the Month – July 2019 – The Winner
Well it was a pretty evenly split vote this month but in the end it was Phi Adams that edged it with his Lessons from Japanese athletes for creative brief writing. Well done Phil – you join the hall of fame. My thanks to everyone that took part. Next vote will be early next month…
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Sweathead, with Mark Pollard
A while back I was holed up in a hotel room in Lisbon after running a leadership workshop for Vodafone and I recorded an interview for Mark Pollard's excellent Sweathead podcast. Mark's an excellent interviewer and has a lovely disarming style to his questioning so even though I was pretty knackered, Mark ensured that we…
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Post of the Month – July 2019 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So this month’s vote is between: Lessons from Japanese athletes for creative brief writing by Phil Adams Listening to your inner rhythm by Jim Carroll Want to innovate like Amazon? Here’s their formula by Scott Brinker Russell Davies’ Strategy Advice by Anna Shipman How corporate innovation labs end up preventing innovation by Jared…
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Post of the Month – July 2019 – Nominations
It's time to open nominations for Post of the Month, so if there is a good post that you've read over the past four weeks please do nominate it by sending the link to me direct or leaving it in th comments below. As usual I have a few starters below but do add to…
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Adaptability Quotient
The BBC had a great list of the 101 people, ideas and things changing how we work today. Lots of interesting thoughts in there – Jason Kottle picked out a few of the most notable. One of my favourites though was the idea of an 'Adaptability Quotient' (or AQ) which relates to your ability and…
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The Power of Positive Attention
I liked this (via Tom Peters, taken from Nine Lies About Work): "Positive attention is THIRTY TIMES more powerful than negative attention in creating high performance on a team…So whilst we may occasionally have to help people get better at something that's holding them back, if paying attention to what people can't do is our…
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The Decline of Historical Perspective
I've been thinking a lot recently about whether we're seeing a deterioration in the value that we place in learning from the past. This New Yorker piece on the decline of historical thinking in particular struck me. The article features a study done by Northeastern University professor Benjamin M. Schmidt that showed that in spite…