My best reads of 2019
Writing about what I read in the past twelve months has become an annual ritual, part of the seasonal no-man’s-land between Boxing Day and New …
Month: December 2019
The Hero
My lovely sister-in-law and her husband gave me this TLS monograph as a Christmas gift: The Hero, by Lee Child. It’s rather magnificent, so I’m …
Systems, planning and punches to the face
TL;DR: “dynamic, self-adjusting system cannot be governed by a static, unbending policy” is academic for “everybody has a plan until they get punched in the …
Two ad giants falling. Will either get up again?
The different approaches at WPP and Publicis are examined in an FT article today. While both companies have endured falling share prices for the past …