And on the subject of love… if you can spare five minutes go read Jeff Risley’s post I can only imagine. In fact, go read it even if you can’t spare five minutes.
People have been facilitated before: boredom, stillness, recovering attention and the undercurrents of life
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
On 14 September I’ll be facilitating the Bricking It conference, sponsored by Channel 4 and CFE. You’ll find more details at the site but this is the theme in a
A client asked me for my thoughts on running retreats and I thought I’d share them here too. One of the main reasons for having a retreat is to create
I’ve not blogged for a week. The inspiration just hasn’t been there for a few days and it’s good to award myself a few days off. So it seems fitting
Thoughts provoked by Robert Paterson’s excellent essay on canoeing, systems thinking, the limits of mechanistic thinking and more.
