One of Andrew Sullivan’s readers retells a great story about some remote islanders who were removed to England in the 19th Century. The idea was to allow them to sample the benefits of civilisation and then share them with their peers back on the island.
It didn’t turn out the way the English expected, and it came as a terrible shock.
Apart from anything else I think it’s a good example – on both sides – that our thinking is more tribal than is sometimes given credit.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I’ve just received a delightful gift from my friends at On Your Feet. A tiny box is wrapped in a strip of paper bearing four stories. Here’s one One day
Paul Levy is a consistently interesting blogger over at Applied Improv. He describes an improv activity he set up for his actors. Three chairs placed upon the stage. Three actors.
Branding used to be about polishing and smoothing to make shiny images of products and services that we’d all admire. These shiny things would have USPs propositions and such. There’d
Thanks to Adriana Cronin Lucas for sharing this quote from G K Chesteron: Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance That captures something
