As the high spending Christmas season approaches I thought I would be the early Scrooge and talk about debt and

Jo Kenrick, Chair and Marketing Director of Homebase, kicked us off with her view that a purpose is about identifying

October saw the final session in this year’s Marketing Leaders Programme, the leadership development scheme for high potential young

Happiness is no longer a cigar called Hamlet, so where can we find it?

At the WACL dinner last week

Since Neil Armstrong’s immortal words in 1969 much has changed in the world.

The computers (not to mention the accelerometers)

Since the last blog the country appears to have slipped quickly back into the way we were before the golden

I don’t like peanuts. To coin a phrase, I eschew them. I have seen no quantitative taste tests, but watching

What’s the smartest business move you’ve ever made?

Recognising that the sole pursuit of profit is fruitless. Serve customers well

I think it was Stephen Hawking who observed that the opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of

THE ANGINA MONOLOGUES:

1/ Koalas bellow.

2/ Facebook hosts 4% of all photos ever taken.

3/ Victorian housewives made jam with carrots as

• Commute to office – 33 minutes and 09 seconds
• Arrive at office – 8.07am
• First chat with colleague – 8.20am

The Roman empire, the British empire – they rise, they fall, nothing surer. And equally sure is the fact that

This really is a lovely little book. It can be read (as I did) on a medium haul flight and

Chief executive opposition

Hugh Burkitt is joining forces with The Leith Agency’s Gerry Farrell in the Ogilvy Debate to

Sorrell's secret

It’s just a few months until Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, the world’s largest advertising and

Companies, especially those in the fmcg world, have a profound interest in understanding where their consumers are heading. Cool hunters

20% of Britons say they are too busy at work to use up their holiday allowance, while 25% claim they

Early last year I was giving this talk a lot. It’s about what we mean by technology, and how it

Outside of the industry, it is little recognized that advertising agencies do not actually make television commercials—this is outsourced to

1/ Male dolphins are bisexual

2/ Nearly six million cats and dogs in Britain are obese.

3/ Barack Obama knows