Like Hugh, I’m enjoying Howard Mann’s new blog. I met Howard last week in New York and had a great conversation with him. He closes his post today – Staying In The Brickyard – with the thought
Maybe your company doesn’t need “The Big Idea”. Maybe it just needs a stronger sense of purpose.
Which I think is a great question for companies to ask before engaging in another rebranding exercise.
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Welcome to the Ourhouse Weblog. Blogging is something I’ve become increasingly interested in. Earlier this month I set up the Beyond Branding Blog which is
The competitive streak in me means I need to keep with Tony Goodson’s blog. The struggles of learning to speak “Movable Type” and thoughts on the nature of blogging.
Earlier today I was writing about passion brands and the power of community. I got a small but interesting example of this principle in action when I visited Ton Zijltra’s blog to find that he’s opened a separate blog on his planned abandonment of Microsoft.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
My friend Olaf Brugman has invited me to take part in a workshop in Brussels on October 29th. It looks set to be an interesting
The Church of the Customer blog quotes an NY Times interview with David Bowie who says: I’m fully confident that copyright for instance, will no
The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
I’ve just started to suffer from Spam comments the latest effort by these wretches to publicise their sites. They basically post fatuous comments to weblogs
At the NGO conference (blogged yeserday and the day before) I met Martin Roell a German blogger and e-business guru. He’s blogged the event in
I’ve finally started paying attention to RSS and all this stuff about “Blog Aggregators”. The final shove was wanting to get Martin Roell’s English feed.
Tom Asacker quotes Ionesco “Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” and goes on to set some challenging questions for folks (like me) who opine from time-to-time in
I like Mike Wagner‘s argument for dropping the metaphor of family when talking about organisations. Money quote: You’re not Moses and employees are not your people. —–
Harold Jarche » Social Learning, Complexity and the Enterprise Humdinger of a post, pulling lots of threads together.
Viv‘s done a great post saving me a lot of work sharing some of the many interesting things we learnt or relearnt together over the last three weeks. Meanwhile Euan
