February 22, 2012
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Here’s a strange feature of the web, and it is caused by star...
February 21, 2012
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As I’ve written about some of the acts that are creating the new genre of...
February 20, 2012
Do you know your creativity quotient? Creativity sounds a little weak, a touchy-feely topic, but it turns to be one of the most important memes of the past 100 years, and very definitely ranks alongside concepts (or ideologies) like capitalism in the pantheon of big ideas.
I admit to being a creativity sceptic. When it came into vogue thirty years ago I cringed. Creative? What’s wrong with busy? Or dedicated. Or hard working. But creativity’s rise – measured by the...
February 19, 2012
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In the days before...
February 18, 2012
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February 17, 2012
February 16, 2012
Social media seems like a fairly self-sufficient activity – it’s all about changing the way companies communicate, right? How they engage?
I doubt this is a sufficient definition. In fact most of us in social media lack some of the knowledge we need to understand how business is really changing. The wider world of innovation and transformation is moving as fast as social, and indeed enables it.
To help raise the wider issues of innovation I had help from...
February 15, 2012
What’s powering your life or career right now? You probably notice some changes, surprising opportunities that have arisen lately or expectations and assumptions that keep going unmet.
A lot of what I write about here is personal empowerment. I hadn’t realized that until recently because I try to write about change. But the idea made me stop and think about how much the changes we are experiencing are really changes to what empowers us.
Empowerment is not always an...
February 14, 2012
I love PR (public relations) (Photo credit: The Silfwer)
Five years ago it looked as though PR was falling to...
