Where’s your fish bowl?
Hat tip Stormhoek Barry Schwartz at TED on the Paradox of Choice. Great speaker, but that is no reason to inflict those shorts on us.
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The Wonder of Woolies
A number of people in the UK PR industry will have noted with sadness the plight of Woolies. Woolworths, and its then parent company Woolworths Holdings, were the banner clients of Paragon Communications during the 80's. Paragon came from nowhere to win award after award and grew to employ over 150 people with offices in Bristol and Leeds as well as two in London before a stockmarket flotation and eventual purchase and then neglect by Shandwick International (a very different firm then from the now very well-run Weber Shandwick). Those who worked on the Woolies business in Paragon's ...
Rotnem
Somebody once said that you can't teach an old dog new tricks, which is a tad worrying for those of us getting on in years in a trade that values youth and energy at least as much as experience and wisdom. And what with all this new fangled interweb stuff, it is true to say that us dinosaurs do ocassionally feel a little closer to extinction than is comfortable. But never fear, my Chicago colleagues have come up with a new concept designed to extend the life expectancy of us old lags....ROTNEM. Have you guessed? It's MENTOR ...
Crowd Surfing reviews
A selection of comments about the book. More coming in from Holland, Sweden and around and about soon. Still a few left that my mum's not bought and soon to be available in Korean apparently (so that will be worth the wait). Daily Mail “Lots of fascinating anecdotes and straightforward, intelligent writing. It might not be on the reading list for business school students, smart ones will read it anyway.” Marketing Age “It’s short, sharp, thought-provoking and engages the inexperienced … This book is a superb read and gives us brilliant initiatives that can be easily implemented.” Colin Byrne, CEO, Weber-Shandwick “I can ...
KBO
I was reminded at the weekend that Winston Churchill’s regular refrain/command during the dark days of the war was “KBO, KBO”, which apparently meant ‘keep buggering on’. Reading some of the ‘genius’ economic commentators and analysts at the weekend (the same ones who almost to a person did NOT predict any of the current financial or economic situation) I think it’s good advice to those of us with businesses to run and manage rather than just columns to fill. This poster from the same period apparently was put up around the UK by the Ministry of Information. I love ...