Out of fear may come comfort, but also out of fear often comes a sense of unfulfillment. You spend your whole life being scared, …
Marketing and Shakespeare – A Pretentious Metaphor – by David Brain
The battle between free-will and determinism is not one that is customarily associated with the marketing or communications industry. Thankfully, it’s more often …
The secret to culture
In the early 1980s, British pop music was fairly stagnant. Real emotion, real feeling, was out. Pretense, posturing, pouting, attitude and escapism was in. …
The best chance of making innovation actually work
We live in a society that mostly rewards innovation over everything else. Certainly, the stock market would concur. So if you’re smart, you’re building …
Nothing Is Forever
Some of the biggest news in creative circles this year has been that Jony Ive is leaving Apple, after a quarter-century of reaching the highest heights …
We all know gratitude IS the mother of virtues. Here’s why.
Life is harder now because our world is designed to distract us. Our world is more confusing than ever. This is no secret. Depression …
Time Is The First Casualty Of Adult Life
That’s the first thing you notice when you leave college. Suddenly nobody has any time anymore. Especially you. I like Sherry. She’s a nice young …
CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!
[NB. SPOILERS AHEAD] Tolstoy’s Prince Andrei (“War And Peace”) is one of the great tragic figures in literature. He starts off promisingly enough- an idealist, …
Why Gender Diversity Matters To Making Your Business More Successful
So there is a lot of social and political pressure nowadays for more diversity and equality in all aspects of public life (including race, …
What the World Needs Now is a New Generation of Empathetic Leadership.
Our friend Brian has been collaborating with us since 2007. We’ve done super cool projects for Linkedin (Once Upon A Digital Time and Attention Is A Currency) as …
Wanna Be A Billionaire?
There are bosses, and then there are superbosses. What is a superboss? It’s not that they are giants themselves (which they are), but that they hire …
Isn’t it amazing that what was true for the Romans is still true today?
The Roman army had three layers: the legionnaires (the rank and file), the centurions (junior officers), and the generals (senior officers). And of these three, …