Category Archives: Blog posts

First published on www.BrandRepublic.com 4 Mar 2011 – http://bit.ly/g1SrPj  If you don’t know anything about rugby, it is a team game with 15 players a side. Two are ‘centres’ (unless you are in New Zealand, which we are not). In … Continue reading →

First published on www.BrandRepublic.com 25 Feb 2011 – http://bit.ly/heDGYB There are times when the news of the day is just so compelling that you want to keep up with developments hourly or even in real time. This week, this has … Continue reading →

 First published on www.BrandRepublic.com 18 Feb 2011 – http://bit.ly/fC19z6 I wonder if the people of our country know what a seminal week this has been? The Government have been forced into an embarrassing climbdown (sic) from the sale of forests … Continue reading →

First published on www.BrandRepublic.com 11 Feb 2011 – http://bit.ly/fC19z6 This is a telephone conversation I did not have with David Cameron last week. I don’t know how he found my number. Is there no privacy these days? DC: ‘I’ve decided … Continue reading →

First published on www.BrandRepublic.com 04 Feb 2011 – http://bit.ly/fC19z6 What a difference a word makes. This week, ‘according to American regulatory filings’, Michael Sherwood, joint head of Goldman Sachs London, was awarded a bonus of £9million. In the late 1960s, in … Continue reading →

First published on www.BrandRepublic.com 28 Jan 2011 – http://bit.ly/fC19z6 So, in an exciting week of news, Andy Coulson – David Cameron’s token piece of rough – moved on to pastures new. Does this provide the Prime Minister with the opportunity to develop … Continue reading →

First published on www.BrandRepublic.com 21 Jan 2011 – http://bit.ly/fC19z6 My first ever blog as ‘A Different Hat’ on www.BrandRepublic.com was posted on 13 November 2009. It was called ‘Convergence and Divergence’ – http://bit.ly/fO6Z8C After setting up my core thesis, I … Continue reading →

Last September, we learned about ‘a secretive department set up in Downing Street’ call the Behavioural Insight Team (BIT) – aka David Cameron’s ‘Nudge Unit’. Here is the news in a contemporaneous article from The Guardian: http://bit.ly/dNG7K6 This week, The … Continue reading →

Sometimes you read something that just hits you in the face and you have to pass it on. Yesterday, this article by Alison Pearson in The Daily Telegraph was brought to my attention – http://bit.ly/iibrBr To anyone that works in … Continue reading →

  Two weeks ago, I argued that 2010 has been a world-changing year. Now, by ‘crowning’ Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year, I am pleased to report that Time magazine appears to agree with me. How opinion forming is that? … Continue reading →