After reading a few provocative, smart articles today on job titles and the growth of hybrid roles in all sorts of industries, I’ve been inspired to throw in my two bits-worth. Mr Boches offers up some great thoughts on job titles, as does this great Fast Company article on the rise of the hybrid thinker. Both articles do [...]

I’ve been lucky enough to garner a bunch of new friends thanks to a great friend/mentor’s kind mention at Boulder Digital Works. I’ve also had some awesome interns/students to work with and they often ask how I got into the biz and how I navigate the advert world. I’m hardly a seasoned vet, but I [...]

Well, I’ll first make my little plug for the upcoming planningness conference in Boulder and NYC Sept 30-Oct 1. It’s a can’t miss. I won’t get into everyone who is speaking, but it’s all the awesome folks. Will be amazing. Hard part will be to decide where to go.
So the premise of planningness is to [...]

OK, everyone and their mother has probably used this as a title in a post.
The new Old Spice work has inevitably all of us chatting about in our agency walls. Good, bad or overhyped, the experiment is advertising gold (or Titanium, whatever). In my mind, there is absolutely no disputing the genius of the original [...]

Surrounded by boxes in mid-relocation– I have to write a few words to support Bud Caddell and his quest to write the book on the changing world of strategy. Bud has a phenomenal blog which I’ve followed for quite some time and admire his thinking tremendously. He decided to start a project and see how the “network” [...]

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age is Clay Shirky’s latest and greatest. As I’m sure many of you know, he is one of the most forward thinkers on the internet revolution (if not you may want to check out his very popular TED Talks). His quotes find it into copious presentations, his influence is immense. [...]