Tweet    How often has the term “culture” been mentioned in your business in the last 72 hours? How often has Peter Drucker’s “Culture Eats Strategy” meme popped up in your LinkedIn feed? I‘m willing to bet the answer is “frequently” or maybe even “too bloody often” Coupled with terms like Digital Transformation, automation, the […]

Tweet   By the time you read this post I am sure your eyes will be bleeding from the scads of ink devoted to Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods last week. Superlatives like “game-changer”, “genius”, “Bezos Brilliance” have been used by the legions of analysts, armchair and otherwise, on this channel and that praise is […]

Tweet Back when I started my career (or when dinosaurs ruled the earth) there was a very different perspective of innovation and innovators. They were an elite group of secret, almost mythical, creatures toiling away in labs far from the prying eyes of competitors or even colleagues without a C-suite designation. As a lowly advertising […]

Tweet One of my favourite business quotations has to be “With great power comes great responsibility” Okay okay I acknowledge that Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben isn’t Peter Drucker or Michael Porter but the core of that statement couldn’t be more true of today’s marketer. An old friend breaks it down like this. Marketers really have […]

Tweet 33,940, 574 views on YouTube Put differently, that’s almost one view for every man, woman and child in Canada. Beyond the views and Facebook comments, one corporate executive has estimated this single execution has generated over $120 million dollars in free media for the company Those kinda numbers become legend. The type of numbers […]

Tweet Tip of the hat to Jeff Bezos. A new “behind the scenes” book coming out. Some pretty decent share price figures. And, arguably, the Retail sector PR coup of the year. Coverage on CBS networks “60 Minutes” last night unveiled “an exclusive that will blow you away”. Mini drones from Amazon capable of delivering […]

Tweet If you’ve worked in the technology field, chances are high you’re familiar with Amara’s Law. “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run” That “Law” seems purpose-written for the current debate on privacy and digital identity. Pundits and opinion run rampant […]

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