- There are two sorts of business – the quick and the dead. That’s the slightly hyper version of this Business Week story on alacrity. Hat tip: Declan Elliott
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David Gurteen tweeted this interesting article (pdf): Conversational Leadership: Thinking together for a change It makes a lot of sense to me pushing for a
This post really interests me: Innovation for Development: Scaling Up or Evolving? As they complete some pilot experiments in development work the authors recognise that
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic suggests why we end up with incompetent leaders making a point about a bias towards men in the process: In my view, the main
From the newsletter of envisional comes word of this CNET article Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank a new
I’ve just given a presentation on Beyond Branding in Jersey. It was fun to take ideas that have been percolating for months and give them
Great article in today’s Independent. The government decided to take action to stop the spread of TB among cattle. They found that badgers were to
Jennifer Rice continues our rolling dialogue about what marketing’s job is. I appreciate Jen for keeping a good thoughtful exploration going. David Foster at PhotonCourier
Eloquent polemic from Chris Lydon: After New Hampshire. Here’s what I’m learning: For those of us who like the sound of “Internet democracy ” who
I’ll be taking part in the Chautauqua online discussion of Beyond Branding, from 15th to 29th February. Fellow authors Denzil Meyers, Chris Macrae, Julie Anixter
Found via Richard Gayle is Strike that Out Sam. This is a cheeky exploitation of the fact that Microsoft Word documents retain the fingerprints of

Chris Corrigan has a good post on how complicated models masked the complexity of the financial system – and made the perpetrators very rich at everyone’s else’s expense. In these

So why do CEOs and Marketing people get along so badly. I think it’s often down to a mutually abusive relationship where it seems impossible to have an honest conversation about the obvious uncertainties of corporate life.

Five years ago I flippantly (apols) proposed an international no flip chart week. Chris Corrigan has just written an excellent explanation of why this would be a good thing. And

Keith Sawyer says you should avoid recruiting people who “fit your culture” if you want to support innovation. We know from creativity research that the most innovative teams have cognitive diversity.