Month: May 2021
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Google Firestarters Episode 8: Thas Naseemuddeen
The latest episode of Google Firestarters features Thas Naseemuddeen, Chief Executive Officer of independent agency Omelet, out in Los Angeles. On her journey to running an agency Thas has worked in senior strategy roles at BBH and Deutsch and in this episode she talks about strategists becoming leaders, the future of the industry, and much…
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Cory Doctorow on Blogging
I loved everything about this post from Cory Doctorow on blogging. He's been doing it for over twenty years and has a lovely way of capturing everything that's good about it. I liked the way he describes how the genius of it comes from the act of publishing: 'These repeated acts of public description adds…
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When to Let Go
I loved this framing of situational leadership that came originally from Alice Chapman but was featured by Will Myddelton as a way of describing the challenge of knowing when to direct as a leader, and when to let go. Will describes how in his own leadership journey he was struggling to understand how to adapt…
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Post of the Month – April 2021 – The Winner
Well, there was a strong showing for Helen Edwards' post on why digital is a downstream discipline but the stand-out winner of this month's vote is Tom Roach with his excellent post on modern marketing myopia. Well done to Tom – you join the Post of the Month hall of fame. My thanks to all…
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We are not nouns, we are verbs
All the talk about following your passion. I prefer to think about it as developing your passion. Which is why I liked this quote from Stephen Fry: "Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it…that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can…
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Post of the Month – April 2021 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So the vote this month is between: Digital is a downstream discipline by Helen Edwards Three or Four Hours by Oliver Burkeman What is an entertainment company in 2021 and why does the answer matter? by Matthew Ball Modern Marketing Myopia: is marketing losing perspective? by Tom Roach Journey mapping is not a marketing…
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Post of the Month – April 2021 – Nominations
Time again to open up nominations for Post of the Month. As always I've got a short starting list below (notably short this month as reading time has been somewhat curtailed this past month). Please do add to these with nominations for posts that you've read over the past month and thought were particularly good…
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Continuous Partial Attention
Back in the day (and I’m talking about 12 or 13 years ago) there was quite a bit of discussion around Linda Stone’s concept of Continuous Partial Attention. Put simply, this is the idea that a modern behaviour of complex multitasking means that we are continuously dividing our attention between multiple, often quite demanding tasks.…