Category Archives: Creativity
On Apple & the Nobel Peace Prize
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…
Back from holiday, back to business
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…
The Global Cloud Based Advertising Agency
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…
Word Embezzlement
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…
Second UP* meeting sparks new ideas
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…
Dark Angels
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…The Power of Words
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…