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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 [...]

Ah, summer. To many of us, it means holidays…vacation…time to relax. Chances are, like me, you also took a summer holiday and are getting back to work about now. As I get back into the work mindset, I posed a few questions to myself about why people take holidays and what it brings them. Here [...]

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.

I attended my second UP* meeting yesterday, and the first-ever in the USA. Several East-coast members gathered to make introductions, share ideas and motivate each other about ways to grow the business. What was most remarkable about the meeting (aside from the lovely historic nature of the meeting room held in the Nassua Inn in [...]

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 few inspirational cartoons from Hugh MacLeod’s Gaping Void Gallery to start your day off with a smile.