We are all Weird – ‘reading’ this now’?

We Are All Weird - Seth Godin’s latest ‘book’ “I’m actually listening too it on my Kindle as an audiobook. Thats Weird eh! So a man that has brought physical books all his life (cause he likes them and collects even) in one weekend not only started using a Kindle with downloaded books – but just [...]

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Creativity is Lonely

I’d like to ‘plug’ Hugh Macleod and his web site ‘the gaping void’. So I’ve clipped this image from his website today. He worked for years (10,000 hours +) doing cartons on the back of business cards. The cartons reflect his life and calling to be a creative. His books are refreshing (with pictures!) and [...]

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How Tron: Legacy Light Cycle Designers Made the Sexiest, Coolest Vehicle Ever | Fast Company

How Tron: Legacy Light Cycle Designers Made the Sexiest, Coolest Vehicle Ever | Fast Company.

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Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

YouTube – RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us.

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Trojan Horses?

I’m trying out a theory. Its that most people don’t do things because they don’t see it, or don’t connect emotionally. And if they don’t ‘get it’ for themselves it does not really exist. So if I want change rather than manipulating them, or putting pressure on them to just do what I want, I’d [...]

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Marketing -you Personal Brand?

Part of Marketing should be thinking about “Personal Branding’. Personal branding goes beyond strength finding and develops your core from the external perspective. Harvard Business Review on this subject says: Building a strong leadership brand requires that companies follow five principles. First, they have to do the basics of leadership—like setting strategy and grooming talent—well. [...]

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Warning -Exec ‘Out of Order’

I have a theory that most of us are only really (capital R) good at one or two things – and probably at our core, just one. But in practice CEOs and SME directors are expected to be able to read balanced scorecards, coach their staff, understand every financial report, be social media savy, while [...]

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