This image is one that I captured this afternoon while showing a colleague through a Wal-Mart on his first trip to Beijing. We had been discussing leadership on and off, in various forms, since we left Stockholm last night for China. Seeing this picture not only tied together many of the loose ideas over the [...]
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Too Many Questions?
There is little doubt that we have entered into the Questionless Age. It's a scary time, one where it is more acceptable to move forward without enough information than it is to ask the right questions. Perhaps part of the reason for this reluctance is the fact that the amount of information available to us [...]
The Core of Brand Identity: “Art & Copy”
"Art & Copy" is a superb documentary - one that I would strongly commend to anyone interested in exploring the core of brand identity. The essence of a brand, to me, comes through the process of creation and can't be separated from it. An integral part of that creation is the work of the people [...]
South Africa and Sweden this morning!
Really an amazing morning. At 03h00 Toronto time, I was wide awake and on a live interview on radio in Johannesburg. An hour later, I was on stage, through our good friends at Skype, in Sweden for TEDxBotkyrka. And now I have one day to get a million things done before flying to Paris. And [...]
Memoir as Corporate Thought
The idea of a written memoir has two prongs: 1. an account of one's personal life and experiences - an autobiography; 2. the published record of the proceedings of a group or organization. In thinking about memoir a fair amount over the past couple of days, it occurred to me that there are probably natural [...]
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