Mark Earls has another good post on the pitfalls of seeking the “key influencers” as a way of instigating change.
I share Mark’s scepticism about over-rational models for explaining how change happens and also about the hero-centric notions of leadership that seem to go with them. (I’ve been browsing through Ramesh Khurana’s Searching for a Corporate Saviour, which challenges that worldview too.)
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
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
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
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.
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
The other day I said “Small boys like to put spiders in jam jars and poke them with sticks. It’s not very nice but as a metaphor, don’t we all
Last week I had a great conversation with Hugh Macleod and Mark Earls (author of Welcome to the Creative Age and more recently Herd.) We talked about lots of stuff
Cathy Moore just started a blog – Authentic Voice – and linked to me. Which led me to find and enjoy her The Feral Manifesto. Snippet: NOT FOR ME the
