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Everybody has a Plan, Until They Get Punched in the Face
The memorable line that forms the title to this post came from Mike Tyson. He's quoted in Scott D Antony's Little Black Book of Innovation which I'm reading at the moment. The book is full of such gems so I'm sure I'll be lifting more from it but Tyson is quoted in the context of…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: The Sell! Sell! Blog had a great take on if the famous Volkswagen 'Lemon' ad was written today (above) A useful deck from Big Spaceship on dealing with Twitter cards A controversial piece with some good points from John Winsor, with five reasons why brands are cutting out agencies A good take from Genevieve Bell (Intel's…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: More slow-mo brilliance from Adam Magyar, this time in Alexanderplatz. Love this project. A provocative take on the evolution of twitter from conversation to broadcast A good post from Greg Satell on the impact of ‘mass personalisation’ A summary of some significant tech trends in the Accenture Technology Vision 2014 A…
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How Reddit Has Changed Over Time
I came across this post (posted in March last year) in which Michigan State University PhD student Randy Olson analysed the posts that users submitted to Reddit between its inception in 2005 up to November 2012 in order to retrace the evolution of the community. Olson took a snapshot view of the most active subreddits, ranked by number of posts…
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Systems Trump Goals
Shane Parrish has an interesting point in his review of (the creator of Dilbert) Scott Adams' book How To Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big about systems and goals, which Adams defines as: "If you do something every day, it’s a system. If you’re waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it’s a goal."…
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The Circular Economy
One of JWT's '100 Things to Watch' in 2014' was The Circular Economy. As described by The Ellen MacArthur Foundation (who have been vigourous supporters of the idea), the circular economy is about transitioning from a linear 'take, make. dispose' economy to a more circular, restorative system characterised by an increasing reliance on renewable energy,…
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Post Of The Month – November 2013 – Nominations
It's time to nominate the good posts that you've read over the past month for Post Of The Month. You can leave nominations in the comments below or send them direct. As always I have a starting list but do add to it and I will put them up for a vote in the usual…
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Google Firestarters
Google Firestarters is a series of discussions, provocations and interviews that focus on the emerging challenges and opportunities in strategy, planning and in the marketing and advertising industry
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Fraggl
What is Fraggl? Fraggl is the brand new Twitter curation app being built by me, Neil Perkin, and the smart folk at AdaptiveLab. Fraggl is setting out to deliver a daily set of awesome links from content shared on Twitter through a unique combination of human, social and algorithmic curation. We’ve worked hard on creating an algorithm…
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The Stupid Manager Theory
I like the point made in this piece on Steve Ballmer's legacy at Microsoft about how often the direct impact of CEOs is overplayed: 'The most common, almost universally accepted reason for company failure is “the stupid manager theory”. It’s the corollary to “the smart manager theory” which is used to describe almost all company…