I’m often alarmed by people who champion execution if in doing so they dismiss important conversations about feelings and meaning.
At the same time there’s a lot of common sense in Tim Kastelle’s recent post: Execution is Everything. I particularly like the point that fights over intellectual property become in effect, a tax on innovation.
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
Laura Ries comments on the Mel Gibson story. Would I be the only person who has something to do with branding who felt uncomfortable with this line? He began the
Chris Corrigan has a good post reflecting on the Copenhagen climate conference and Big Event meetings in general. I have been thinking about this for a while and the missed
Neil Perkin highlights this video of a talk by conductor Itay Talgam. Talgam compares a variety of conducting styles as examples of leadership and explains how control gets in the
John Gruber offers a witty translation of corporate drone from Adobe. Here’s a snippet. Why is Adobe acquiring Macromedia? Adobe
