Year: 2022
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Shipped in 2022
This is now my ninth year of doing an annual retrospective of my work year. It is (as I've said before in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021) something that I find personally useful to reflect on the pattern of work across the year and […]
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Not as Simple as Pushing a Button
One of Tom Whitwell's '52 Things I Learned' (another excellent list this year as always) related to how the push button was a somewhat controversial interface when it was first introduced in the 1880s. Digging a bit further there's some interesting parallels […]
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Dazzle Camouflage and Reframing a Problem
I love this example of reframing a problem that relates to the dazzle camouflage which was invented (by British Marine Artist Norman Wilkinson) and extensively used during World War One to help protect warships. British Zoologist John Graham Kerr had originally proposed […]
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Death Circles
What teams can learn from Army Ants, and how to avoid ‘death spirals’
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How Knowledge Access Drives Innovation
In the late 19th Century Andrew Carnegie was the richest man in the world. From being a poor Scottish immigrant to the US he went on to build a steel empire which he sold to JP Morgan for almost half a billion […]
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On Brainstorming
The under-recognised but proven ways to improve the outputs of brainstorming sessions.
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Agile Marketing is NOW OUT
So, big news. My third book is published TODAY. It was a real labour of love to write this one but I'm so pleased with how it turned out. You can read more about why I wrote it here but I've also […]
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Google Firestarters Episode 18: Rachel Mercer
An insightful episode of Google Firestarters with Rache Mercer, co-founder and CXO of Proto and ex VP, Head of Strategy at R/GA New York
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Google Firestarters Episode 17: Russell Davies
Episode 17 featuring the brilliant and erudite Russell Davies
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Agile Marketing: Announcing my Third Book
Announcing the launch of my third book, on Agile Marketing