Year: 2023
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Google Firestarters: Helen Edwards on Growth from the Margins
The latest episode of Google Firestarters is now live – this one features Helen Edwards, founder of Passionbrand, columnist for Marketing Week, and adjunct professor at London Business School. Helen has just published a new book ‘From Marginal to Mainstream: Why Tomorrow’s Brand Growth Will Come From the Fringes – and how to get there…
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Leadership, Teams and Bids
Psychologist Dr John Gottman (along with his wife Dr Julie Gottman) is renowned for his work on marital stability, relationships and predicting divorce in couples. In his research he has famously predicted with a 94% accuracy which marriages will end in divorce. After decades studying the way that married couples interact and the factors that…
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Focus means saying ‘no’
Last week Richard Huntington shared this video of Jony Ive talking about how Steve Jobs was brilliant at focusing. Many of us think about focus in terms of being able to sit and work exclusively on one thing and yet this is only the half of it. Jony makes a great point here about how…
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Autonomy doesn’t work without situational awareness
The need to combine team autonomy with situational awareness to truly empower teams and individuals
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The Social Context for New Technologies
There was an interesting example of how the social and anthropological context shapes the use and evolution of technology in Mark Allen Peterson’s book ‘Anthropology & Mass Communication: Media and Myth in the New Millennium‘. Referencing Naomi Baron, Peterson describes how we have a tendency to think of the modes of how we use technology…
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All New Google Firestarters
Adam Morgan discusses creativity from constraints in this episode of Think With Google Firetstarters
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Learning from Oaks
Anyone who has seen me speak will know that I’m a fan of metaphors. A couple of months back I learned something about Oak Trees (via a friend) that I found myself reflecting on on this, the first day of a new year. Oaks are incredible. They support 2,300 different species and over 300 species depend…