Category: inspiration
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Google Firestarters 16 – The Magnificent Seven
For our next London Google Firestarters event we have an absolutely stellar line up. We are bringing together seven of the smartest brains in strategy and planning to answer a simple but compelling question: What is the most useful thing that you have
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Creativity in Business
This, from The Book of Life: "…business creativity is a little different from artistic creativity. A company is a group of individuals gathered together to solve a problem for other people. This helps to define what the true focus of business creativity
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Visual Cues, Habits and Motivation
My first job after University (which was actually a Polytechnic if you can remember back when there were such things) was selling space in recruitment directories. There was a recession on at the time (hence very few jobs for graduates with non-vocational
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On To-Do Lists
I rather liked this approach to doing a To-Do list from Peter Bregman, taken from this write up (found via Fraggl) of his 18 Minute plan to managing your day and finding focus. What I particularly like about it is the more comprehensive way
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Google Firestarters Comes to Australia
I'm really excited to announce that, on the heels of our events in New York and our recent one in Austin at SXSW, Google Firestarters is coming to Australia. We'll be running two events in one week – one in Melbourne on the 21st April,
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Two Great Quotes on Strategy
This from Good Strategy/Bad Strategy (via @amayfield): "The first natural advantage of good strategy arises because other organisations often don't have one. And because they don't expect you to have one either. A good strategy has coherence, coordinating actions, policies and resources so as to
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Google Firestarters 15: How To Think Differently About Advertising – The Event
Monday saw the interested and interesting of UK planning come together for our 15th Google Firestarters event. Our sole speaker on the evening was planning legend Paul Feldwick, who talked about his controversial new book The Anatomy of Humbug: How to Think
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Google Firestarters Austin – Engineering Strategy – The Event
Saturday saw our first ever Firestarters event in Austin, held in the Google Fiber space during SXSWi. We'd themed the event around the intersection of user experience design and strategy which, judging from the audience feedback and debate on the night is
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Disrupting Wall Street
I've been in Austin at SXSWi for the past few days putting on our first Google Firestarters here (more on that soon) and so have been attending some of the sessions whilst I'm here. Someone said to me before I came out
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Google Firestarters 15: How To Think Differently About Advertising
Our next London Google Firestarters event will be happening on March 23rd at 6pm in Google HQ London and I'm delighted to say that we have the legendary Paul Feldwick (above) speaking about his brand new book 'The Anatomy of Humbug: How To Think