Articles about Work/Life.
Blur – The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy.
by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer
Stan is the visionary and guru, Christopher the corporate guy from Ernst and Young and then Monitor, the consulting group. They argue we are living in a world that is like a night club with strobe lighting. A world where the intangibles of marketing and connectivity are the key as everyone can do the left brain stuff of getting the functionality right (viz. all cars work). The book is a thinly disguised list of ways to run a modern business…none the less it raises interesting issues.
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Generation Z and a suitcase full of marketing.
Or maybe it’s a very expensive rucksack.
Generation Z, like all such cohorts assigned by sociologists, are, by definition, dangerously generalised and simplified. But just bear with this one foe a moment.
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Creativity is the legal way of gaining an unfair advantage.
The originator of the idea that creativity can give you an unfair advantage is Maurice Saatchi.
Now Lord Saatchi he lived this out in the way he and Charles, his brother, launched their agency Saatchi & Saatchi in the 1970s.
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