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Brands and disability inclusion

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Brands that take disability inclusion seriously will be the real winners of the future economy, writes activist Caroline Casey

Superpower your stack

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Digital product strategy consultant at Bloomberg Philanthropies and Marketing Society New York board member, Perry Hewitt, on the ways organisations have not only used technology to drive revenue and reach, but as a catalyst to re-organize their culture to be more agile

Brand building and warfare

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Winning is the stuff of great human stories but, in business, the truth about success is more often found in hard data, superior technology and how resources are deployed, writes strategist Julian Saunders

The (em)power of one

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Author David Gluckman looks back at his career: the launch of Baileys, Piat d'Or and Aqua Libra and the early days of IDV (the company that became Diageo) and how it was the most empowering organisation he ever worked for

What's the new language of winning?

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Not so long ago, this is what winning looked like. Competitive, boastful, gloating statements plastered across every advert, every front-of-pack, every touchpoint

It's time to think differently about thinking differently

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The marketing landscape has completely changed. Almost to the point of feeling we’re living on different planet.

Esports: the new marketing battlefield?

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Publisher at Unofficial Partner, Sean Singleton, asks, should brands care about esports? Hint: yes. And offers some ways they can get involved in this rapidly growing marketplace.

Back to the future of marketing

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Richard Chataway explains why every marketer is in the business of behaviour – and how 60 years of scientific progress in understanding human behaviour helps...

Growing brands in the age of anti-consumerism

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One of our family’s proudest success stories is that of my sister and brother-in-law. They raised the bar on the

There will be no jobs on a dead planet

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At the 74th sitting of the United Nations General Assembly, a 16-year-old school girl from Sweden stole the headlines.

The forgotten majority

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Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) continues to be a topic that is at the forefront of discussions at top levels of many organisations

The robots are coming

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The robots are coming. Aren’t they? Let’s see what robots have so far been up to. In the advertising industry, that is.

Putting the b into bravery

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In the complex world we live in we face significant challenges, be these from new Global threats, new challenger business models, new social structures or societal expectations.

Bold moves: the path of most resistance

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Paul Gauguin was a bit of a dick. At the age of twenty-three he lucked into a cushy job at the Paris Bourse (France’s stock exchange).

This much I've learned: Pete Markey

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It was just your average Wednesday evening. Nervous attendees of an antenatal class being advised by a highly nervous junior midwife keen to impress

How to create powerful ideas

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Innovation is the lifeblood of growth in this fast-changing, unpredictable world.

A nomad's guide to creativity

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Faris, says habitation makes us blind, that we stop seeing the world around us when we commute every day.

Blame the robot

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we need to elevate the conversation about creativity away from just our outputs and ‘the work’ and focus it on our people

BRAND PURPOSE DOESN'T BUILD BRAND DISTINCTIVENESS.

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JKR Singapore's Head of Strategy looks into how true purpose builds connected brands

Being braver: the changing role of the CMO

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Great marketing leaders today are marked out by courage and confidence more than ever before.

Why “no idea is a bad idea” is a bad idea

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“No idea is a bad idea” is one of the sacred rules of brainstorming