Year: 2019
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Post of the Month – April 2019 – The Winner
Happy to say that the winner of this month's vote is Ryan Wallman's post on AdLand's obsession with youth. So well done to Ryan – you join the Post of the Month Hall of Fame. My thanks to everyone that nominated and voted. Don't forget that next month's nominations will open early June.
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Google Firestarters – Ever Changing Marketing
I'm delighted to say that Google Firestarters is back. In eight years of Firestarters events we've focused a lot on the craft of planning, on innovation, agency models and the future of advertising, but never really opened up beyond advertising to think about the wider context of how marketing itself is changing. Yet the discipline…
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Post of the Month – April 2019 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Youth Spies and Curious Elders by Austin Kleon Word Salad by Nicki Sprinz AdLand’s obsession with youth will come at a costs by Ryan Wallman Sexism in Advertising by Rachel Cooke The Strategic Independent by Tom Critchlow And you can vote below:
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Post of the Month – April 2019 – Nominations
Gosh. It's time again (already?) to open up nominations for Post of the Month. You may know the drill by now – I've got a short starting list below of posts that I thought were good from the past month, but please do add to these with your own nominations either direct or via the…
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DogEarThis
So I was having a Twitter chat with Nick Childs and Gerad Petherbridge a while back and we were talking about how Twitter is such a good place to come across great books that you haven't read, and great concepts from great books that you haven't read too. Planners on Twitter seemed to be particularly…
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Post of the Month – March 2019 – The Winner
Thanks for all the votes. It was a pretty close run one but I'm happy to say that the winner is Richard Huntingdon with his post The Value of Deep Work is Your Only Real Value. Unbelievably this is the first time Richard has won, but well done to him – he joins the hall…
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Post of the Month – March 2019 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. Another good set of reading this month. So our vote is between: The Stupidity of Sameness and the Value of Difference by Tom Roach Brief in Haste, Repent at Leisure by Jan Gooding Strategy Needs Good Words by Martin Weigel The Value of Deep Work is Your Only Real Value by Richard Huntingdon Pitch:…
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Post of the Month – March 2019 – Nominations
It's time to open nominations for Post of the Month. More good reading to be had this month so as usual I've put a short starting list of nominations below but please do add to these with posts that you think have been particularly good over the past month. You can nominate via the comments…
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Good Questions
Too often we focus on getting quickly to the answer to challenges and not pausing to think whether we are actually asking the right question. The ability to ask good questions will I think be one of the greatest leadership skills in increasingly complex environments. Which is why I really like this quote from Kevin…
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Post of the Month – February 2019 – The Winner
There was strong initial voting for Jan Gooding's post on Brands are the campfire of the company and also for Shane O'Leary's D2C playbook, but I'm happy to say that the winner of this month's vote is Rob Campbell's important post When Work Tries to Destroy You. Well done Rob, it's good that a post…