Great conversations…

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I met Paul Goodison yesterday along with my Beyond Branding co-authors Tim Kitchin and Malcolm Allan and fellow Medinge Group member Luke Nicholson. (The Medinge Group is the think-and-do tank that gave rise to the book). It was a great conversation which Paul has blogged here and here in a very flattering way. As he says, I am a lover of great conversation, and yesterday turned into one long rolling conversation.

After Paul left, the rest of us stayed on to kick around ideas for the next Medinge Group meeting in Amsterdam. This led to all sorts of exchanges about how we work together, what helps us to collaborate and what stops us collaborating more. We all took turns to “speak the unspoken” – my hot theme at the moment, and as usual this made the talk more exciting and useful. Anyway, we’ve pencilled January 16th in the diary and I’m expecting it to be another first-rate event.

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