Achievements this week included: - great meetings with Topic Logic, Imagination, @andrewdotcom, Em Stone, colleagues in A&O, and my old boss Tim - delivered the first Creativity workshop to colleagues - some innovative thinking about how the marketing influence work moves forward - progress on recruiting into the evangelism team Next week: the subtle, low-key … Continue reading Weeknote 107: in to motion
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Achievements this week included: - exciting conversations with folk from the world of branding... - ...and of media sales - ideas on how to "PR" the marketing world - a first cut of my new business objectives - getting some great "it changed someone's life" type feedback on a session I ran for our student … Continue reading Weeknote 106: a new (financial) year
Achievements this week included: - great meetings with folk from a big PR agency now doing mobile... - ... and colleagues from our Advertising business - spouting Innovation Equations at the Ignite Shoreditch event - a fascinating meeting with neuroscientists at Oxford - pulling together a short workshop on creativity - and doing it all … Continue reading Weeknote 105: Year 3
Achievements on the last week of my second year of weeknoting: - continuing to refine the new year plans for evangelism - good catch up time with friends in St James' - an entertaining day at the Methodist Central Hall for LeWeb - and the pleasure of hearing that for someone my views "renewed their … Continue reading Weeknote 104: biennial
Achievements this week included: - analysis of the current apps world from some consistent sources - four great sessions at the Cloud Computing World Forum - solid progress on setting performance objectives for the team for the new Financial Year - role specs for some new positions in the team defined - and reviewing of … Continue reading Weeknote 103: just me and the boys…
Achievements this week included: - surviving the monsoon conditions at our street party for Liz with good, solid British stoicism - getting some great insight into the gaming industry with a colleague from Microsoft Studios - a fantastic day at the BizSpark European Summit, listening to start ups, investors, and other interesting types - some … Continue reading Weeknote 102: jubilee
Achievements this week included: - helping to start implementing a new team structure, and my new role - a good day spent in Old Street at Reasons to be Appy - many conversations started about the world of Marketing and Apps... - ... and many more booked in the diary - surviving the annual staff … Continue reading Weeknote 101: the one that people are scared of…
Achievements this week included: - booking lunch with a Baroness - further shaping of plans for the year ahead - a productive cross-company manager's forum - a reasonable volume of blogging - writing hash tags on a coffee cup to prove a social media point Next week: the jollity that is calibration.
Achievements this week included: - further new financial year planning - thoughts on a workshop for fellow members of the management team - running a couple of enjoyable sessions at the ITDF - attending a stack more - and some great conversations with IT leaders from across the UK about where IT goes next - … Continue reading Weeknote 99: sea legs
A chance conversation yesterday with @rolandharwood, and a bit of serendipity with the part of the book I'm currently reading (Imagine by Jonah Lehrer, which comes highly recommended) has got me thinking about the role that optimism has in innovation and creativity. I flippantly remarked to Roland that in my view nothing ever got changed … Continue reading ITDF Captain’s Log 3: Mindful optimism
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