When I was here in New Zealand in 1994 I was introduced to the music of Dave Dobbyn, a man since revered as a Kiwi icon (there is no higher accolade here). I saw him two years ago at the Toast Festival on Clapham Common in the blazing heat of a scorching London summer day. Last night I saw him again in the cold and rain of an Auckland summer evening (weather irony). He is bloody brilliant though. A taster as I know he has escaped the attention of most beyond the land of the long ...
I’m just back from my first trip to India since 1998 and wow what a change. I used to be a regular visitor and India is one of those places that make such a powerful impression that even though I knew things had moved on, past associations were so strong and vivid that I suppose I expected to return to the land of Ambassador cars and crumbling buildings. Actually Ambassador cars (the Indian brand based on the 1950’s Morris Oxford) and crumbling buildings are still there but so are brand new airports, six lane highways, metro rail systems ...
This is the first working day in my new job as CEO of Edelman Asia Pacific. One good thing about starting this on the New Zealand edge of Asia Pacific is that time zones mean a leisurely mid morning start sees my emails hitting the inboxes of clients and colleagues obscenely early for those in Asia or obscenely late for Europeans and Americans. Either way an aura of 'ahead of the game' smugness is difficult to avoid. And I haven't. So my new year will see a lot of travel to places I have not spent much time ...
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There has been some debate here lately about the impact of the Times and the Sunday Times for our clients. Not many months ago, that time honoured mantra that the Times was 'the newspaper of record' and a CEO interview in the Sunday Times Business section was the ultimate career builder was still trundled out (we do use data as well, but you know....). But now both are not searchable or accessible I for one am looking eslewhere. Both publications are still powerful institutions, and coverage is valuable, but the ability of a good piece to live online and ...