Do you ever find that a word, a particular word suddenly starts to really irritate you? Perhaps a word that previously seemed rather innocuous, useful…
There is one subject that people like me on blogs like this rarely address. While we devote acres of prose and polemic to everything from…
I have been thinking a bit about value recently. Agency people don’t like thinking about value because they associate it with having to create tragic…
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” Maya Angelou In…
If there is one defining philosophy of my approach to planning and strategic development it is the mantra that it is vital to be interesting…
For a time of loving and giving this Christmas saw a bloodbath in British supermarket retailing. As retailer after retailer reported their fourth quarter trading…
Needy is a wonderful word to describe someone that craves rather too much of something from us rather too much, whether attention, help, love, sex…
One of the murals depicting the Battle of the Bogside (August 1969) in Derry Londonderry, an enduring records of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Image…
I have been spending a lot of time thinking about trust over the past year. And a lot of time becoming truly frustrated at orthodox…
When you have fireworks like this who needs bonfires. Image courtesy of Fernando Castaneda. In recent years the business of marketing has been assailed by…
From horsemeat in the lasagne to Libor fixing in the blood, not to mention industrial scale tax avoidance, brands have to put up with…
I am not an economist but let’s say I am economically curious. And I wonder whether some of the debates that are happening in…
