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Conversational leadership
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
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Scaling or evolving?
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
Leadership, narcissism and what we really want
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
P2P application from a refugee camp
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
Jersey
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
Badgers and the joy of complexity
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
More on what is marketing…
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
The revolution will not be televised…
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
Chautauqua
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
Microsoft’s embarassing metadata
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
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Kindness
Chris Corrigan describes some insights from First Nations elders in Canada. Here’s one: I asked him about the Ojibway word “ogiimaw” which is often translated as “chief” or “boss.” I
12 March 2009
Vodka selling by word-of-mouth
Jackie Huba found this article: A cut above from the Sydney Morning Herald. To launch its new Vodka brand in Australia Absolut have ditched conventional advertising in favour of word-of-mouth.
29 April 2005
Care vs Service
Rob Paterson sparks thoughts on the difference between Care and Service.
5 July 2004
Putting humanity into branding
We live in a world of too much marketing and too much branding. People’s faith in advertising has fallen to new lows as we simply fail to engage with the
19 September 2003