October 23, 2004

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Adam Curry‘s Daily Source Code is a good podcast. Keeping it real he points out today (around minute 4:30) that in preparing for the Gilmour Gang participants expressed strong anti-Bush opinions… but “no one spoke with the same passion during the actual taping even though the elections did come up… it always amazes me how the minute the microphone turns on then all of a sudden… everyone takes a stupid pill and we’re not real anymore.” I’d like to have heard the pre-taping discussion!

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The value of not always saying something helpful

Beyond writing

Writing stuff down can easily remove us from practical reality and suppress our intuition

Inauthentic marketing: case study

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.

The individual transcends the bland…

BA stewardess Claire breaks the corporate ice and creates real engagment. Hats off to BA is their culture supports this sort of thing.

Customer-centricity: is it the answer?

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?

Authenticity: you can’t fake it

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

In praise of um… er….. deeper meaning

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!

Follies of ranking

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

Values – ideal or real

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

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Jory des Jardins’ mum likes her latest post (see the comments). And so do I. Living Without a Net: An Odyssey into Self-Employment (Part XVII): On Defining Success and Allowing

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