In this video, I chatted to David Price from The Grove Media – a successful media planning and buying agency that opened its doors in 1997. The Grove Media team successfully manages an incredible 250+ clients across a broad spectrum of industries – retaining them for well above the agency
Struggling to work well with certain colleagues? Find yourself having the same issues time and again despite promises to change? If you identify yourself or a team member from the scenario below, then hopefully I have a few ideas which might make you reframe your approach and have more clear
We all have ideas. Ideas are immortal. They last forever. What doesn’t last forever is inspiration. Inspiration is like fresh fruit or milk: It has an expiration date. If you want to do something, you’ve got to do it now. You can’t put it on the shelf and wait two
This week, one of my lead articles got pushed back a week and was replaced by this piece. A gentle but important reminder that you should take a moment to take the foot off the pedal when your energy is low. For the last week or so, I’ve been undertaking
We should all be aware by now of how incredibly powerful clear, simple systems can be. This is never more true that when you’re preparing to spend more than 70 days alone on the Arctic Ocean’s floating pack ice, in pursuit of becoming the youngest person in history to ski
An incredible little insight from David Hieatt. The takeaways as I see them… 1.) Tell the truth, not what you want people to hear 2.) Some things take time (lots of things, actually.) — An acorn visits a growth hacker. It went seeking a quick win. The initial consultation seemed
Scope creep. See also, kitchen-sink syndrome, requirement creep, feature creep and focus creep. Scope creep refers to the uncontrolled changes in a project scope. In short? It’s where the margin disappears. Scope creep is problematic all year round for agencies, but as we head into the seasonal Christmas project frenzy,
Coming very soon – the radical, experiential approach to help you see things more clearly and to stop your own thinking from holding you back. Clear Thinking is etc’s new approach to help you crack many of the limiting factors that have been holding you back. Are you seeking Clear
There’s not a lot I don’t love about this article by Oliver Burkeman. A few spoilers (but please read the full article, it’s worthy of serious consideration): Give up demanding more of yourself than three or four hours of daily high-quality mental work Do not ‘maximise your time’ or ‘optimise
The Guy in the Glass by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934 When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf, And the world makes you King for a day, Then go to the mirror and look at yourself, And see what that guy has to say. For it isn’t
