Category Archives: creativity

Stuff and Things – I wrote a book

It’s everyone else’s fault really. They kept telling me to write a book. So I did. Here it is. https://youtu.be/f0mVgzUZ81E Stuff and Things. The title pretty much self-completed when I started this blog thing many moons and 568 posts ago in 2007 and called it “[bluurb] stuff and things i thought you might like toContinueContinue reading “Stuff and Things – I wrote a book”

Key Takeaways: CMO role and Customer Focus

The Richmond Marketing Forum in London recently kicked off with a fabulous keynote featuring Naomi Walkland, CMO of Motorway, Jessica Myers, Chief Customer Officer of The Very Group and Rosie Hanley, Marketing Director at John Lewis. Having been surrround-sounded by political debates in the media where debate has been re-framed as shouty, aggressive, finger-pointing, talkingContinueContinue reading “Key Takeaways: CMO role and Customer Focus”

One picture, many stories

I can hardly tell people to be curious, experiment and try new things if I don’t do it myself. So when my good friend Eraldo Mussa asked me to contribute a short story based on a stimulus of one photo and one line, I said yes. I’ve always enjoyed stories. I think writing is anContinueContinue reading “One picture, many stories”

Going on a Birss-a-thon

I met Dave a couple of years ago when I had booked to go on the Spark.me conference on a  whim. It was in Montenegro. I didn’t know what to expect but it was great for a number of reasons. I came away inspired, enthused and excited. One of the stand-outs was the working sessionsContinueContinue reading “Going on a Birss-a-thon”