I had a delightful meeting yesterday with David Boyle author of “Authenticity: Brands Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life” a wonderful book published earlier this year (and now in a second edition for a bargain
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.
Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!
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
I met James Cherkoff (of Modern Marketing fame) for lunch today. And had a great rambling kicking ideas around, what-if conversation. And he pointed me to this great article by
Ben Franklin on building community through curiosity, dialogue and modesty. Wise words from “the first American”.
I’ve not blogged the second day of the IMC conference partly because so much has been done over at Fast Company. What struck me most strongly was the contrast between
Annette has a typically thought-provoking post about confidentiality in relationships. I recommend the whole thing though this observation particularly resonates. The second is that the stories that are revealed “in
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