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May, June and July seem to have rapidly become ‘speech time’ as I’m giving talks at events almost every week over the next few months, but I’d like to highlight three of them. May 24th I’ll be at a destination marketing event in Jönköping calledSmartaPlatser. Here I’ll be talking about the marketing of destinations and [...]

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 [...]

The Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway is just a few days away, and it’s a very exciting time for several of us at *UP There, Everywhere. Not only because we are thrilled about going to the Concert (we are). Or because we expect it will be a fantastic show and amazing experience (it [...]

I’ve been down in Switzerland for the past two days at a client’s company meeting, in a small Swiss town in the pre-alps. I always enjoy coming to Switzerland. I gave a  presentation yesterday on “The Value of Brands” and obviously Apple came up as an example. It struck me just what a debt so [...]

At *UP There, Everywhere we’ve been working for several months now on a new brand strategy and identity for Airport City Stockholm. We launched it last week at a real estate event called Business Arena in Stockholm, at the Water Front Arena.

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.

How do you create a great brand? Well, great brands become great by doing great things, by making brave decisions and sticking to their principles. In September 1962 the then un-known Beatles were desperately looking for their first number one hit. Their first single, Love me do, had failed to reach the top of the [...]

The trouble with Boston, it seems, is there is not a single universally recognizable geographic icon for the city. This I found out while trying to select an “Avatar” for my blog posts on the *UP There, Everywhere web site. Every image I found and liked (the Zakim bridge, Harvard University, a quaint Back Bay [...]