I found this on a table in a pub in Camden this lunchtime.
“Life can only be understood backward–but we must live it forward (Soren Kierkegaard)”
I have nothing to add.
People have been facilitated before: boredom, stillness, recovering attention and the undercurrents of life
The value of not always saying something helpful
Writing stuff down can easily remove us from practical reality and suppress our intuition
An example of inauthentic direct mail, from Lincoln Financial Group. The elements that eat away at the credibility of the sender and the effect on this reader.
BA stewardess Claire breaks the corporate ice and creates real engagment. Hats off to BA is their culture supports this sort of thing.
Michael Hammer’s new book, The Agenda, is about the rise of customer power. But is customer-centricity really such a good model for business and society?
Thanks (again) to John Porcaro for linking me to the Customer Evangelists’ blog where I found this: OLD SCHOOL: Ad agency pays teen bloggers to
Once again, it turns out that what we do naturally has more value than we realise; whereas clever contrivances intended to “improve” our effectiveness often just destroy significance… and make us less well understood! A good lesson for all those presentation trainers and “image consultants” out there!
John Porcaro blogsmore evidence of the dangers of running businesses by crude interpretations of numbers… how superficial metrics can cover a rich tapestry of human
I am blogging from my friend Thomas’s office in Essex. All around are those inspirational posters… eg “PERSISTENCE Now that we’ve exhausted all possibilities… let’s
Dave Snowden mentions two good aphorisms to guide vigorous debate argue as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong (from Karl Weick) strong opinions weakly held
I’ve not blogged for a week. The inspiration just hasn’t been there for a few days and it’s good to award myself a few days off. So it seems fitting
Matt Jones found this little nugget in the Feburary 2003 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: The Minority Slowness Effect: Subtle Inhibitions in the Expression of Views Not Shared by
Kevin Roberts suggests rebranding the War on Terror. I’m biting my lip here, and I’ll just link to what Stefan Liute has to say.
