From the category archives:

Leadership

Denial is More than Just a River in Egypt: in this case, it’s incisive!

I’m sure the twitterati and digerati and otherati will be all over this speech:  : from Unilever CMO Simon Clift.
The denial: “Social media is not a strategy.”
How right he is!  Of course you knew that already, since you read this blog.  :-0
The new media are just media; buyers have taken control of information [...]

Agent Provocateur

Demonstrations of leadership and courage are rare in times of economic crisis, and basically invisible at present.  Thus one is tempted to suspect a challenge to the digerati-twitterati and the marketing profession as a whole as just so much more hype in a period of zeal and desire for revolution unlike any I’ve observed in [...]

This Land.

Thanks to Ron Miller for the link to the performance by Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, yesterday.
The video clip is so evocative I had to stop work on another project to reflect.
We are at a genuinely interesting point of transition in [...]