“A man working for discount retailer Wal-Mart was killed on Friday in a stampede by frenzied shoppers who broke down doors and surged into a Long Island, New York store, a police spokesman said.” Reuters Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like savages. “When they were saying they had to leave, [...]
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Black Friday madness
Posted in random, thoughts on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Slow
Posted in random, thoughts on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Things don’t move that fast after all.
The moment when social media became the news
Posted in digital, thoughts on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
James Surowiecki, the author of the Wisdom of Crowds, gives an inspiring speech about the power of social media and how people organise themselves in order to have a voice. What I really like about his talk is that he challenges his own theory. He isn’t blind about the role of social networks in today [...]
Age Of Conversation 2
Posted in books, digital, planning, thoughts on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is a big day. 237 bloggers worldwide are participating to the launch of the second edition of the Age Of Conversation. You can purchase / download the book here and read the 237 visions of why don’t they get it? Including mine. Massive thanks to Drew and Gavin for organising everything.
On the need to change and historical context
Posted in quote, thoughts on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I really love the two quotes below. They remind us that it is equally important to embrace the change, the uncertain and also that this change as a context and we can learn more about it through history. I guess this is maybe due to my studies in History but no matter which client I [...]
Context Collapse
Posted in digital, planning, thoughts on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Context is one of the most important things a planner or anyone else trying to look for some truth, should endeavour to understand. Context enables you to recognise how things operate and how they are linked or disconnected from each other, in effect it is the glue that binds together all the different sources and [...]
What’s wrong with not being premium?
Posted in advertising, branding, planning, thoughts on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been working on a couple of brands recently and one thing that came often form the client mouth was: we want to be more ‘premium’! As if being a premium brand was the ultimate achievement in life! Of course as Richard Huntington pointed out on his presentation about brands, operating in a monopoly [...]
Solving the wrong problems
Posted in advertising, planning, thoughts on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Below is a very interesting talk from Jon Steel at the ‘Planning at 40‘ conference. His words are very wise as always and I love the fact he is using the past to move forward. More than anything I couldn’t agree more with the fact that we have to focus more on long term visions… [...]
Social Business
Posted in thoughts on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.” – Muhammad Yunus I have recently discovered Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace price 2006 and founder of the Grameen Bank) work [...]
Design Thinking
Posted in thoughts on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ideo’s CEO, Tim Brown wrote a very interesting article called ‘Design thinking’ for the Harvard business review where he urges us to “think like a designer to transform the way we develop products, services, processes and even strategies.” This is in a nutshell what the article is all about: “In the past, design has most [...]
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