Just back from another extraordinary gathering at Medinge where the community that has produced Beyond Branding meets each summer. I was planning to keep this blog updated from there but I’m afraid I was distracted from the continuous stimluation of the debate. And where else could one sample the multi-culutural exprience of hearing Benny Hill sketches about an Indian interviewing a chinaman presented by a Hong Kong-born New Zealander in response to questions from an Englishman living in Norway?

Grit before pearls
Ben Schott has a go at the paradoxical blandness of supposedly disruptive startups: Welcome to your bland new world. It’s easy to get stuck in