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It’s increasingly obvious that the world needs to change and change quickly and radically. It needs to find new ways to work and new ways to do business. Five years ago I used to spend at least three hours a day in a car, driving around 120 kilometers (70 miles) a day to and from [...]

A Moment in History. December 10th 2011 & The Nobel Peace Prize. This years joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize gave three powerful lectures yesterday in the impressive setting of Oslo City Hall. It was a moment in history and I was fortunate enough to be there and witness it in person. This year’s [...]

Over the past two or three weeks you’ll have noticed, unless you’ve been walking around with your head in the clouds, that the technology world has had the equivalent of some pretty huge seismic events. The acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google. HP throwing in the towel in the personal computing business. The knowledge that [...]

Following on from my last blog approach of  ‘Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal ‘  this month I happily embezzle a few words from a person I have the great pleasure of knowing well – John Simmons. John is an inspiring creative business writer, who was one of the founders of the Dark Angels writers courses.

Today Barcelona is one of Europe’s, if not the world’s, most successful destinations for both tourism and as a business location. People even talk of adopting the Barcelona model when it comes to redefining a post-industrial location. However, it was all very different forty years ago. In the 1975 series “Fawlty Towers,” Manuel, the hapless [...]

A month or so ago I was fortunate enough to attend a creative business writers course at Merton College Oxford. The company behind the course is called Dark Angels a UK based organisation dedicated to improving business writing. There were just eight fellow writers attending, amongst them some of the most creative business writers I’ve [...]

How many ways can you convey a message? We have so many ways to convey how we feel, but so few of those ways really let the world know how important the message really is to us. Time and time again, I’ll see an ad with a simple “Buy Now” message, or some meaningless fact [...]

A good friend, who has been a client several times during our relationship, pointed out to me one of the really big advantages from his perspective of *UP There, Everywhere. He knows that if he takes his business to an agency he will end UP being given a team to work on his business that [...]

The word different has played a pretty important part in my life. At my old company, Dowell//Stubbs, our tagline was A Different Point of View. It spoke to one of the fundamental elements of branding– that of being different. Today we are launching a new company. A company that takes that concept a huge step [...]

Welcome to Out Of The Box, the *UP There, Everywhere blog where we give our members a chance to introduce themselves, chat a bit about what they do or simply let off steam on a topic. At UP* we don’t sit in boxes, and we kind of like the idea that it’s a space for [...]