Archives for the 'thoughts' Category
A New Way of Thinking & Working
It’s increasingly obvious that the world needs to change and change quickly and radically. It needs to find new ways to work and new ways to do business. Five years ago I used to spend at least three hours a day in a car, driving around 120 kilometers (70 miles) a day to and from [...]
Should Sweden make a bid for the winter Olympics?
Article from LÄNSTIDNINGEN January 14th 2012, on an Åre / Östersund Olympic bid.
A Moment in History. December 10th 2011 & The Nobel Peace Prize.
This years joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize gave three powerful lectures yesterday in the impressive setting of Oslo City Hall. It was a moment in history and I was fortunate enough to be there and witness it in person. This year’s award was won jointly by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, [...]
Nobel Peace Prize work
I’ve been down in Switzerland for the past two days at a client’s company meeting, where I’ve been giving a presentation on The Value of Brands. And it’s been an exciting day, as I have been waiting for the announcement regarding this years Nobel Peace Prize winner. In fact it turned out to be winners [...]
City in the Clouds
At *UP There, Everywhere we’ve been working for several months now on a new brand strategy and identity for Airport City Stockholm. We launched it last week at a real estate event called Business Arena in Stockholm, at the Water Front Arena. Traditionally airports were seen as a gateway for the transportation of people and [...]
The Global Cloud Based Advertising Agency
Over the past two or three weeks you’ll have noticed, unless you’ve been walking around with your head in the clouds, that the technology world has had the equivalent of some pretty huge seismic events. The acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google. HP throwing in the towel in the personal computing business. The knowledge that [...]
Word Embezzlement
Following on from my last blog approach of ‘Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal ‘ this month I happily embezzle a few words from a person I have the great pleasure of knowing well – John Simmons. John is an inspiring creative business writer, who was one of the founders of the Dark Angels writers [...]
E is for exclamation mark!
Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal. The great Steve Jobs himself has attributed that quote to Pablo Picasso, and I’m happily stealing this blog entry from fellow Dark Angel, friend and all round brilliant writer Elen Lewis. Elen and I were both on a Dark Angels Writers Master Class at Merton College Oxford earlier this [...]
Barcelona & the Beautiful Game
Today Barcelona is one of Europe’s, if not the world’s, most successful destinations for both tourism and as a business location. People even talk of adopting the Barcelona model when it comes to redefining a post-industrial location. However, it was all very different forty years ago. In the 1975 series Fawlty Towers, Manuel, the hapless [...]
Dark Angels
A month or so ago I was fortunate enough to attend a creative business writers course at Merton College Oxford. The company behind the course is called Dark Angels ( http://www.dark-angels.org.uk/index.html ) a UK based organisation dedicated to improving business writing. There were just eight fellow writers attending, amongst them some of the most creative [...]
