In a few weeks' time I'm running a short workshop for a group of people who work in the world of marketing insight. In preparation, I'm looking to find a few volunteers who can help me test a theory... I'm someone who has a lot of theories. I try to test as many of them … Continue reading Surveyed
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Over the past few years I've toyed with the idea of writing a book. I'm writing pretty much constantly, so pulling together some focus on the themes to produce a coherent tome couldn't be that hard, could it? And a book would give me credibility that a mere blog doesn't have. Would give me something to talk … Continue reading What is a book?
In the summer I started to use the LinkedIn publishing service to cross-post things from my own blog onto the business social network. Although the editing tools are a bit ropey, and the reporting non-existent, people seem to be commenting on LinkedIn articles a lot more than on my own site (mostly I guess because I've … Continue reading The Top Posts of 2014 – Part 3
Back in January I caught up with Mark Chillingworth for a cup of coffee at the British Library. Mark is Editor in Chief of CIO Magazine in the UK, and one of the upshots of that meeting was that he asked if I would start contributing a column to his online service. On January 20th … Continue reading The Top Posts of 2014 – Part 2
So for the past couple of years at about this time of year I've pulled together a quick view of what have been the most popular articles on my blog over the preceding 12 months. It's a useful reflective exercise to see what has chimed with people, and also gives me the opportunity to remember … Continue reading The Top Posts of 2014 – Part 1
I've been asked by a client to pull together a session looking at the future of career paths and career planning towards the end of the year. It's an interesting assignment, and a theme in which I've made fairly significant experimental investments in the past few years (often to my wife's considerable consternation). Undoubtedly "working … Continue reading The future of career paths
I'm very lucky to live in the stereotypical leafy South West London suburb of Teddington. Close to the open spaces of Richmond and Bushy Parks, with a thriving local independent shopping centre, great schools and other amenities. The best way to illustrate what sort of a place Teddington is is when I saw dog poo … Continue reading Leading questions
Every so often I search for myself on Google. This is me keeping tabs on my online identity, and not just vanity. Honest.I've noticed recently that at the bottom of the search results (which are mostly about me, which is a big "Yay!" for my integrated social search optimisation strategy of just blathering a lot) … Continue reading The right to not be forgotten
Coadec Executive Director Guy Levin wrote an interesting piece on Wednesday calling for a clearer view from government about positive disruption in the start-up space. Now I'm sure that government needs to have a view and encourage entrepreneurship, but this is a two-way street. There seems to be an almost "autistic" nature of the … Continue reading An ethical code for disruptive startups
At the beginning of next month I'm going to be starting a significant piece of work for a new client. At the moment I don't know how much I'll be able to talk about it. That makes me somewhat unsettled. Suffice to say the client is someone that you will have heard of, and the … Continue reading Confidence in confidentiality
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