At Russell‘s prompting I found this amazing image of Velcro taken by Dee Breger – it’s near to the bottom of that page on Dee’s site.
I think of Velcro as an analogy for how Web 2.0 works by allowing for lots of little connections. Viewed one way, it’s messy. Viewed another it’s rather beautiful. And offers the possibility of a lot of grip…
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
I really liked what Tim Kastelle says here. He asks us to think about what innovation is for.. something that seems left unsaid in a lot of writing on the
Nice observation by Nick Wreden: H Gordon Selfridge the founder of Selfridges one of the best-known department stores in UK, first penned the well-known slogan, “the customer is always right.”
Chris Corrigan highlights two quotations on writing. The first is from Jeanette Winterston: Creativity is inexhaustible. Experiment, play, throw away. Above all be confident enough about creativity to throw stuff out.
I had a great lunch with Adrian Trenholm today and got home to read his lastest post about two agencies which are showing good signs of switching on to conversational
