A long haul airplane will point directly at its destination for less than 10% of the flight. Which means that for 90% of the flight it looks like it’s going somewhere else. This occurs because the pilot has to make allowances for the curvature of...
Making decisions is tough. There are always trade-offs, pros and cons, risks and rewards. But life generally requires us to make decisions, some big, many small. The problem is that decision making can be exhausting and lead to fatigue and when fatigue sets in, your...
Have you been drinking the Kool Aid? We hear this phrase a lot in business. Typically referring to someone espousing the values of “the corporation” a little too passionately or over-zealous leaders who have started believing their own hype. But, do you know where the...
What if I said to you that you could buy the most innovative product on the market, that is a genuine improvement on an established category, that actually delivers on its promise and costs only 10% of the value of its components. You’d be interested...
To thrive in today’s high pressure, high expectations marketing world, you need to be more than a high performance “corporate athlete”. You need to bring another dimension. You need to bring your A-game. That is, your “Art-game”. So what is the A-game and how do we bring...
I don’t know about you but I love it when someone challenges my thinking, inspires me to greater heights and makes me do better work. In today’s busy world, it might not happen very often but I think you have to make it happen. You...
The days of hyper-aggressive competition between brands are being mollified as progressive businesses put aside competitive inclinations in favour of collaboration. Sure, healthy competition can drive people and businesses to innovate and improve. But aggressive competition, the type that blindingly seeks to destroy the enemy and...
What we measure is what counts. A universally acknowledged truth is that people adapt their behaviour based on how they perceive they will be measured/compared/judged. For those of us in the marketing and communication fields, what we measure has largely defined the industry we now...
Not the most glamorous of thoughts. Isn’t marketing supposed to be sexy? Well, in fact, this quote comes from someone describing one of the sexiest, most successful businesses of our lifetime; Apple. "Logistics means marketing" is a quote from Regis McKenna, the man who in 1976...
In the connection economy, having an audience that values your voice; your content; and your opinion is crucial to achieving relevance. Progressive brands recognise that owning the dialogue with their customers is far more powerful than paying to be a bystander to someone else’s conversation. Brands...
